1742580339000 1717413333000 Standard Record object-110010217 1747160956327 1721661259000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010217 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010217 e61118d5-36f2-3b16-ab4b-a4d2023d891b 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209871 adlib-agent-209871 000a44b9-82c6-3fce-96db-5f591f7114b3 Hosmer, Harriet person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia person reference agent-209857 adlib-agent-209857 a169b1e2-6030-32b5-be7d-5dd766fb651b Lytton, Robert Bulwer Length mm 202 Width mm 130 Leaf 2 Length mm 260 Width mm 202 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning says she and Robert Browning sent a letter for Blagden that is wandering around Madrid. She praises Blagden as always being very good to her. She says Blagden has not had a holiday in Madrid so she does not begrudge for resting in Florence rather than visiting them in Rome. Blagden is mistaken if she thinks Barrett Browning has changed her opinion of Rome. She thinks Rome is the most ‘dissipated of watering holes’. Robert Browning has been very busy and sociable and has not done much writing. Talfourd has produced a portrait-picture of Barrett Browning in chalk that she is very pleased with. She agrees with Blagden regarding Annette’s decision (presumably not to live in Florence any longer): ‘Never consider me again as an English-woman, Isa– I am done with England’. She discusses the political situation in Italy and provides updates on mutual friends such as the Hawthornes, Hatty (Harriet Hosmer), etc.. Regarding Sophia Eckley, she says ‘Mrs Eckley was here yesterday, & told me to offer you her regards. I shall talk to you some day about her, & explain her to you, & teach you to love her– “This is A, this is B,[”] and so on–’. She asks whether Lytton sent Blagden his book: ‘There is no reference to you in the book precise enough to strike one–’. In Robert Browning’s portion of the letter, he discusses Lytton’s book and Annette going away to Naples. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 26, pp. 77–81 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2019). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4351. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/89 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/89 110010217 priref 110010217 old reference no. Browning(EB)/126 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010217 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010217 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1859 1859 March 4. [1859] 1859-03-04 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert geography reference term-107139 adlib-term-107139 9fd5ef13-3709-388f-b925-702787340e32 England literal England England MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT