1742580339000 1716568618000 Standard Record object-110010199 1747160956249 1721657317000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010199 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010199 6da008d7-df13-3f8a-b28d-cc1b3609b8d0 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 Length mm 174 Width mm 111 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Florence, Italy. Barrett Browning says she cannot express her ‘astonishment at the infinite degree of bad taste of the letter you enclosed to me’ (presumably a letter from Robert Lytton; Lytton had sent some photographs to the Brownings which ‘had quite softened’ Barrett Browning towards him, but now her ‘anger is up again’). She complains that the letter shows ‘a want of feeling’ and she is ‘deeply disappointed in Lytton’. She asks whether Blagden can forgive the groom Pippo due to his forgetting the time. Peni has said Blagden is not well. Barrett Browning advises: ‘Throw off this dust, & remember there is blue sky above you.’ (Context from the Brownings' Correspondence project: At the end of December, Lytton moved from Isa Blagden’s villa to the centre of Florence, occupying rooms in the house of the banker Leone Finzi. In the 1 January 1858 section of a letter to John Forster, Lytton reported that he had relocated due to the “encreasing cold of winter, and the return of bad symptoms in the throat” (see SD2127 in vol. 24). He remained in Florence, in the Finzi household, until 8 March 1858. Evidently, Barrett Browning and Blagden considered the manner of his departure from Villa Brichieri abrupt and ungrateful.) This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 25, pp. 1–2 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2016). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4111. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/72 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/72 110010199 priref 110010199 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G36 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010199 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010199 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1858 1858 [1 January 1858] 1858-01-01 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT