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Barrett Browning says they are back in Rome while Blagden is in Madrid. She describes the weather and the journey. She also says \u2018The Eckleys were kind beyond kindness\u2019. Annunziata, their maidservant, rode on the outside of the carriage and they met Ferdinando in Room with a list of flats from Annette. They spent the first night in a hotel then they came to the \u2018lion\u2019s mouth\u2019. She describes the rooms which she is happy with. The Storys paid a visit to them. Barrett Browning says Mrs Story is less pretty for having \u2018increased her scale\u2019. Mr Story discussed the \u2018spirit question\u2019 which he has been frightened away from. Barrett Browning praises their children, then describes the Pages whose studio they visited including the children and the new Mrs. Page (Mr Page's third wife) whom Barrett Browning speaks disparagingly of. She describe\u2019s Mr Page\u2019s Venus and says \u2018Mrs Story has tired of sitting for her picture, so leaves it on his hands\u2013  There\u2019s human gratitude for you!\u2019.\n\nShe mentions the Thompsons, Mr Hooker, Gibson and Hatty (Harriet Hosmer). Of Hosmer, she says \u2018Hatty looked radiant when I saw her. She came in one evening after dining with Pantaleoni, with large sleeves, & lace, & everything pretty. She remains Hatty after all. The night before she had been with Miss Cushman, & returning home at ten was encountered by a man who extended his arms & enquired why, she walked the streets of Rome at so late an hour\u2013 It was close to her own door, & she knocked before she spoke. Then turning round she said .. \u201cYou ask my reason for walking so late. This is my reason\u2013\u201d And crash across his face she struck with her iron-pointed umbrella. He turned & fled like a man\u2014I wont say as Miss Cushman did, like an Italian. So there\u2019s your Hatty for you.\u2019. She also describes Hatty\u2019s sculpture and praises it (\u2018A statue of a sleeping girl on the tomb of Judith de Palezieux Falconnet, who had died two years earlier while still in her teens. The monument, commissioned by the girl\u2019s mother, was placed in the church of Sant\u2019Andrea delle Fratte on 13 November 1858\u2019, see Dolly Sherwood, Harriet Hosmer: American Sculptor, 1830\u20131908, Columbia, Missouri, 1991, pp. 142\u2013145 and 173). Of the sculpture, she says: \u2018Not merely her best work, but a work far better than I, for one, ever expected from her\u2019. She says the Sartoris do not come this winter though Leighton is in Rome. The Brackens live a long way off but Robert Browning still sees Annette at the studio. Robert Browning is very well and Barrett Browning is also well. She does not go out in the evenings nor the last three mornings but will be freer in Rome than Florence. Una Hawthorne is unwell and being tended to by Franco: \u2018Mrs Hawthorne also is unwell. He of the Scarlet Letter came to see me some days ago, and I saw him for the first time in an anguish of shyness.\u2019\n\nThis letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 25, pp. 303\u2013307 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2017). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4291."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/87","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/87"},{"priref":"110010215","type":"priref","value":"110010215"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/120"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010215","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010215"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1858,"latest":1858,"note":[{"value":"12. 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