1742580342000 1717516257000 Standard Record object-110010238 1747160956370 1721905400000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010238 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010238 007c844b-868d-37b3-a302-9f21528f2c73 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-209853 adlib-agent-209853 cb3a86d4-becf-35b0-b6cf-afcec57fadab Wilson, Elizabeth person reference agent-154632 adlib-agent-154632 504a4575-e963-34f0-ae3f-87e61cbf1707 Field, Kate person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia Length mm 194 Width mm 127 Leaf 1 Length mm 196 Width mm 125 Leaf 2 Length 124 Width 97 Leaf 4 Length 196 Width 124 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning worries that Blagden is unwell and instructs her how to keep warm at Casa Guidi and in Florence. She says it is cold in Rome but not as in Florence. Hatty (Harriet Hosmer) is unwell. Blagden should ‘come & see her & carry her back with you’. Barrett Browning gives advice on Elizabeth Wilson who is ‘a sort of medium’ but has ‘no proportionate personal & intellectual strength’. She also says Wilson is pining for Ferdinando. Barrett Browning says not to send her ‘another person’s letters’ (presumably Sophia Eckley's to Blagden) however Barrett Browning has had a letter from Sophia Eckley. Barrett Browning says she likes Kate Field for her honesty and her kindness in checking in on Landor. She sends further news of Pen including that his Italian ‘is very much praised’. She is aware of ‘certain diplomatical secrets’ which she cannot share with Blagden though she would like to, gives news of the English diplomats and their dealings with the Emperor. She says that ‘Lord Palmerston’s speech on the Defences & the articles of the Post on Suez—are revolting to me.’. She says she has heard from Arabel. They (the Barretts) have lost an uncle and her sister in law has also lost her mother suddenly. She makes a veiled reference to Sophia Eckley: if Blagden is asked whether Barrett Browning writes, Blagden must not deny it only say that Barrett Browning is a ‘bad correspondent’. Barrett Browning hears that Daniel Douglas Hume and his wife are in London. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 108–111 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4558. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/110 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/110 110010238 priref 110010238 old reference no. Browning(EB)/217 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G30 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010238 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010238 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1859 1859 Thursday– [?15] [December 1859] 1859-12-15 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT