1742580342000 1717584496000 Standard Record object-110010243 1747160955987 1720630111000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010243 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010243 d3ff1645-1aee-38fe-ac77-04401d1e122a 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209872 adlib-agent-209872 4abc2c2a-b652-30f8-b410-5bf46be6763a Stowe, Harriet Beecher person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia Length mm 194 Width mm 124 Leaf 3 Length mm 195 Width mm 124 Leaf 1 Length mm 195 Width mm 124 Leaf 2 Length mm 195 Width mm 125 Leaf 4 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning says Mrs Stowe has visited and they were grateful. Blagden’s books also came and they were very grateful. She discusses the ‘medium’ (Sophia Eckley) whom she no longer believes. Barrett Browning likes a new medium – Mr Hazard – who even a disbeliever such as Mr Apthorp likes: ‘Mr Hazard says that the notion of the subject dying away, is quite a mistake. All his correspondence from America (& he is devoted to this one subject) assures him of the contrary, precisely’. She discusses the Italian political situation and English political actions. She tells Blagden to ‘come’. She is recovered from an earache. She comments on various books: praises Trollope’s latest and criticises Thackeray’s. Dumas is in France. Robert Browning missed Dumas once but has met him. During this encounter Dumas discussed Italian politics and Robert Browning says Barrett Browning could not have borne it but she demurs: ‘Only he would have been just Dumas to me & not an historiographer.’ Nobody could interrupt Dumas. Dumas is to return to Rome and Barrett Browning would like to meet him but Robert Browning appears ‘abashed’ to extend an invitation. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 185–189 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4607. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/115 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/115 110010243 priref 110010243 old reference no. Browning(EB)/140 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010243 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010243 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 Thursday. [16 February 1860] 1860-02-16 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