1742580342000 1717587563000 Standard Record object-110010246 1747160956116 1720629113000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010246 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010246 f3272fe4-553e-3b36-8cce-7a9a24dd8d06 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-209871 adlib-agent-209871 000a44b9-82c6-3fce-96db-5f591f7114b3 Hosmer, Harriet person reference agent-209872 adlib-agent-209872 4abc2c2a-b652-30f8-b410-5bf46be6763a Stowe, Harriet Beecher Length mm 247 Width mm 194 Leaf 1 Length mm 247 Width mm 194 Leaf 2 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning thanks Blagden for the letters which are ‘strength of authority as well as proofs of insight & comprehension’, possibly written by Fauvety. She compares the thinking of the English, Italians and the French. She was very pleased with Mr Wilson who is ‘up to new ideas, & not “insular” in the least’. She has seen Mrs Stowe only once who talked of Mrs Eckley. Eckley will visit Barrett Browning, and Barrett Browning expresses discomfort with this in the light of their changed relation and her changed attitude towards Eckley. She has received 3 copies of Aurora Leigh so will give one to Eckley as it was promised, one to Harriet Hosmer (Hetty) and encloses one to Blagden. Hetty has not visited her much and she fears that Hosmer is not well. Mr Story’s ‘Cleopatra’ statue is mentioned in Hawthorne’s new novel. The new English consul has also praised the statue. If the Eckleys she says ‘What I would give if some sudden whirlwind would sweep that family out of Italy, back to America!–’. There is some issue regarding Blagden’s accommodation between her and Hosmer, Miss Cushman. Barrett Browning says she is not strong but stronger and better than yesterday. She comments on the Italian political situation and says ‘Mrs Stowe is full of the Italian question, & is about to write a series of letters on it for the American newspapers–’. She asks whether Blagden ever sees the Saturday Review which she pronounces to be ‘hideous’. She asks how the novel is. ‘Dall’Ongaro’s poem has great spirit & swing —but it is not his best doing, to my mind. May I keep it? or shall I return it?’ (From the Brownings' Correspondence project: 'perhaps “Il Vento e il Diavolo,” a ballad of twenty-four 8-line stanzas, which sold as part of lot 255 in Browning Collections (see Reconstruction, L85).' A copy of "Il Vente e il Diavolo" is held by the Fitzwilliam as part of this collection - see GBR/280/MS.1.R.-1917/8/11). This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 209–213 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4616. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/118 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/118 110010246 priref 110010246 old reference no. Browning(EB)/142 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010246 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010246 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 Tuesday. [6 March 1860] 1860-03-06 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