1742580339000 1716544632000 Standard Record object-110010175 1747160956271 1721319265000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010175 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010175 0ab10ab8-999c-3879-a60e-027fea3dc0c4 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert person reference agent-209857 adlib-agent-209857 a169b1e2-6030-32b5-be7d-5dd766fb651b Lytton, Robert Bulwer Length mm 200 Width mm 130 Leaf 1 Length mm 200 Width mm 130 Leaf 2 content description This is a letter written from Paris, France. Barrett Browning praises Blagden’s poetry: ‘Your verses are extraordinary for newspaper poetry’ (this poem has not been traced however) ‘or are we flattered into the thought, I and Robert, by their great kindness?’. This is due to the poem being dedicated to the Brownings. She goes on to describe their rooms in Paris. She says ‘We shall have Dickens & his family almost opposite—and Lytton is in the next street which is of more consequence’ though Lytton has not visited her. She says perhaps he really is overwhelmed by work as he tells Robert Browning. She advises Blagden on rooms she can take in Paris. She asks if possible for extracts from the spiritualist James John Garth Wilkinson’s letter. He is someone Barrett Browning wishes to know. She provides an extract from Mrs Kinney's account of a seance. Daniel Douglas Home is staying with Nicholas Longworth Powers. She comments on the reviews of Robert Browning’s work, ‘He is much abused—but the largest admissions of his originality & power are made on all hands, & I think we have reason (considering the density of the world’s skulls) to be satisfied.’. She also says that Blagden is ‘naughty’ to still think of Madrid and they ‘must talk reason about’ that. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 22, p. 26–28 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2015). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 3689. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/47 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/47 110010175 priref 110010175 old reference no. Browning(EB)/202 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G88 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010175 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010175 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1855 1855 Sunday– [9 December 1855] 1855-12-09 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT