1742580342000 1717519238000 Standard Record object-110010240 1747160956046 1721905529000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010240 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010240 d53ae4cd-b586-3706-9f63-a12c380c1906 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia person reference agent-154632 adlib-agent-154632 504a4575-e963-34f0-ae3f-87e61cbf1707 Field, Kate person reference agent-209848 adlib-agent-209848 79523e6a-6a3c-30b6-bdb1-9d9c7ce8dece Barrett Browning, Robert Wiedeman Length mm 194 Width mm 124 Leaf 2 Length mm 194 Width mm 125 Leaf 3 Length mm 196 Width mm 124 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning comments on death of Agnes Alexander. She says it is ‘natural and characteristic’ of Blagden to want to go to England to support her friends but she musn’t. Barrett Browning talks about her misguided impressions of Sophia Eckley. She says she will make no more female friends because fate draws her to ‘women of straw, women of false lives & hearts’ and it’s a wonder she and Blagden are friends. Barrett Browning says she values Kate Field however. She was against the idea of printing Sophia Eckley's book but it was difficult to articulate this. She comments further on the political situation in Italy. She is late in replying to Blagden’s letter because she has been busy with ‘Poems before Congress’. Of this work, she says ‘people will hate me in England but never mind’. She will also reprint ‘Curse for a Nation’ which has only been printed so far by abolitionists. It ‘will come in well in relation to the bad, bad Brown affair’, referring to the hanging of John Brown. She expresses surprise at publishers Chapman and Hall’s silence (which would turn into the eventual rejection) of Blagden's 'Agnes Tremorne'. Barrett Browning has had a kind letter Dr Grisonowsky. She says Blagden is very good to Landor and sends a ‘picturesque account’ of him. Pen fell thrice from his pony and the animal was maddened by a mare left in the stable. The pony has been sent away and Pen is unhurt. This is a fragment of the letter; Robert Browning has continued his portion on the envelope which is held by the Armstrong Browning Library and is scanned and available to read online. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 124–129 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4567. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/112 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/112 110010240 priref 110010240 old reference no. Browning(EB)/200 old reference no. Browning(EB)/108 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G90 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010240 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010240 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 Thursday [5 January 1860] 1860-01-05 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 MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT