1742580339000 1716565743000 Standard Record object-110010194 1747160955852 1721649799000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010194 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010194 a1c7f126-ce2d-3034-ab2e-8e07d32072fe 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209857 adlib-agent-209857 a169b1e2-6030-32b5-be7d-5dd766fb651b Lytton, Robert Bulwer person reference agent-209848 adlib-agent-209848 79523e6a-6a3c-30b6-bdb1-9d9c7ce8dece Barrett Browning, Robert Wiedeman person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert Length mm 223 Width mm 174 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Lucca, Italy. Barrett Browning describes an excursion they took to the mountains behind the Eckley house with Mrs Jameson. They plan to go to Florence on Tuesday. Peni has kept to a very strict diet the Italian doctors have prescribed (‘If Lytton could see how strictly the diet has been maintained’). Mrs Jameson will go to Lucca and then onto Florence. Regarding Lytton, Barrett Browning says ‘Oh Isa– I delay speaking of Lytton because it grieves me to think even, much less speak on that subject. That one so noble, so good,—with such high spiritual impulses, should allow his light to be blown upon, agitated, (not put out) by certain breaths .. it does grieve me—& less for his happiness now, than his usefulness & greatness hereafter. It grieves me—but I am not surprised– You know what I thought. “Manon” holds her own– His very anger was love– He never ceased to love her—not for a moment– / Observe! under the circumstances, a really good woman (even if she had felt herself maligned) would have taken no step to get him back– It is conclusive to me. Give my love to dear Lytton’. She asks whether the Storys have been or are in Florence. She sends her love to Annette and says ‘Robert will be enchanted to resume his rides with her’. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 24, pp. 164–166 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2016). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4065. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/66 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/66 110010194 priref 110010194 old reference no. Browning(EB)/188 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010194 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010194 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1857 1857 Saturday. [3 October 1857] 1857-10-03 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT