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Barrett Browning explains she has not written due to being very ill. She caught a cold going to see the \u2018famous swords\u2019 that were a gift for Victor Emmanuel. Due to the heavy rain she fell ill but says now she is \u2018up again (after a week\u2019s confinement to the bed) and though feeble & pale, ... reviving every hour\u2019. She praises the swords. Robert Browning also had a cold but he was unwell before her and his colds aren\u2019t as severe. Barrett Browning says to Blagden she could not give up a friend due to \u2018scandal\u2019. From the Brownings' Correspondence Project: \u201cPart of the manuscript is missing, possibly a sheet consisting of four pages. Presumably, the missing text concerned EBB\u2019s estrangement from Sophia Eckley\u201d.\n\nBarrett Browning asks about rumours regarding Savoy. She is glad that Blagden is better. She says \u2018If I had staid in Florence, Isa, I should probably have ended there in the body\u2013 I am grown very susceptible, & am not much worth the trouble of keeping alive.\u2019 She says it's hard to have a head full of poems when it makes one\u2019s heart \u2018beat so\u2019 to write them. She has still written something new for Chapman, which she predicts he will \u2018patriotically refuse to print\u2019. She discusses Pen taking a fall from his horse and how he gets on with his lessons including doing well with Latin. She says that Mrs Alexander \u2018will bear her grief better\u2019 than Blagden supposes (perhaps in reference to the death of Louisa Alexander). Barrett Browning praises Kate Field for being a \u2018true, brave heart\u2019 and that this time she hasn\u2019t \u2018fallen among thieves\u2019 (presumably a reference to her misplaced affection for Sophia Eckley). She thanks Blagden for the poems she has sent.\n\nThis letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 148\u2013150 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4582."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/113","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/113"},{"priref":"110010241","type":"priref","value":"110010241"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/G87"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/214"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010241","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010241"}],"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":1860,"from":{"earliest":1860,"latest":1860,"value":"1860-01-25"},"latest":1860,"note":[{"value":"Wednesday Thursday [25\u201326 January 1860]"}],"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1860,"latest":1860,"value":"1860-01-26"}}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-164438","uid":"adlib-agent-164438","uuid":"134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51"},"summary_title":"Browning, Elizabeth Barrett"},{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-18959","uid":"adlib-agent-18959","uuid":"39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14"},"summary_title":"Browning, Robert"}]}]},"summary_title":"MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden","title":[{"value":"MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}