1742580342000 1717585621000 Standard Record object-110010244 1747160956124 1720629795000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010244 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010244 dca6d458-04fc-33e3-b4fd-012c062e5bd1 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-189374 adlib-agent-189374 489333e0-2e45-3331-8025-ee912fae345e Landor, Walter Savage person reference agent-209872 adlib-agent-209872 4abc2c2a-b652-30f8-b410-5bf46be6763a Stowe, Harriet Beecher Length mm 130 Width mm 52 Envelope Length mm 247 Width mm 124 Leaf 2 Length mm 248 Width mm 195 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning mentions Edward Wilberforce who they do not know particularly well. He is about to marry Fannie Flash. Barrett Browning comments on political situation with reference to Austria and other European nations and possibility of war. The Brownings have had ‘the most affectionate’ letter from Mr Foster. He is upset by Landor’s ‘bearing’ towards him. He has changed his previously strongly negative opinion of the Emperor though it is still negative. He confirms the gossip about Garibaldi not marrying Madame de Swartz who visited them ‘in great pain and anger’. Barrett Browning refers to Garibaldi’s pre-existing relationship and child with Battistina Ravello. Instead he married Giuseppina Raimondi. Barrett Browning feels very sorry for Madame de Swartz. Garibaldi has also acted poorly with her in relation to his memoirs which she was to write and had completed the first volume and arrangements were ‘made with a Dutch publisher’. Garibaldi has asked for his notes to be returned and has now given them to Alexandre Dumas ‘who means to bring out a Life’. Barrett Browning is disappointed in Garibaldi for ‘cheat[ing]’ Mdme De Swartz in this way. She makes further comments on the Flash family and the upcoming Flash-Wilberforce marriage as well as on Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poetry. Barrett Browning is sorry that Miss Cobbe is ill and Blagden is going to Florence rather than Rome. Miss Cushman wanted Blagden to come to Rome but ‘did it too roughly’. Blagden is good to ‘poor Mr Landor’. She makes mention of Owen’s Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1860), Mrs Stowe visited the Brownings but after Barrett Browning went to bed. Barrett Browning has been dealing with an ear ache. She comments on James T. Fields an American publisher in relation to Blagden's novel. In the postscript, she notes that Robert Browning has written to Landor and asks about Hume. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 199–204 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4612. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/116 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/116 110010244 priref 110010244 old reference no. Browning(EB)/187 old reference no. Browning(EB)/206 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G117 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010244 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010244 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 Feb. 24. [1860] 1860-02-24 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