1742580339000 1716476490000 Standard Record object-110010171 1757587376848 1757359846000 1757587372861 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010171 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010171 7cad4056-1739-3b36-932f-19e209b0c5ab 2 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-202863 adlib-agent-202863 e61f5193-7305-3aae-bba2-6e71edff1d1c Bulwer-Lytton, Edward person reference agent-209857 adlib-agent-209857 a169b1e2-6030-32b5-be7d-5dd766fb651b Lytton, Robert Bulwer Length mm 126 Width cm 99 Leaf 4 Length mm 199 Width mm 126 Leaf 1 Length mm 199 Width mm 126 Leaf 2 Length mm 199 Width mm 126 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Paris, France. Barrett Browning tells Blagden she is ‘perfectly unwise & wrong’ not to stay in Paris. She talks about the cheapness of Paris relative to London but also quality of the produce. She is certain Blagden would be charmed by Paris: ‘It’s Italian freedom & northern civilization, the two together. Yet you stay & fritter away your life among the high prices & low fogs of that detestable London’. Despite her praise of Paris they fell into a ‘trap’ regarding their accommodation and are very uncomfortable consequently. They are visited by the two Lyttons and James Jackson Jarves. They all go to meet a medium together in the morning. Though she likes Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton she says ‘our Lytton is worth fifty of him’ referring to Robert Lytton. Sir Edward ‘particularly inquired’ about Blagden. John Forster only gave them ‘two evenings’. She says ‘Jerves cries out at the improvement in your looks’. In her postscript she complains she has neither pen or paper and mentions Home. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 21, p. 323–326 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2014). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 3666. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/43 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/43 110010171 priref 110010171 old reference no. Browning(EB)/171 old reference no. Browning(EB)/215 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010171 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010171 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1855 1855 Sunday– [28 October 1855] 1855-10-28 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT