1742580342000 1717603231000 Standard Record object-110010258 1747160956257 1721906620000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010258 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010258 498292c6-9d90-3af2-b990-6844a47970cd 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-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert person reference agent-209857 adlib-agent-209857 a169b1e2-6030-32b5-be7d-5dd766fb651b Lytton, Robert Bulwer Length mm 246 Width mm 194 Leaf 2 Length mm 246 Width mm 195 Leaf 1 Length mm 248 Width mm 194 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning mentions Theodore Parker who was very ill and to pass away on the day of the letter. She discusses Story’s bust of Parker and reminisces on her meetings with Parker and his feelings on spiritualism. She sends Blagden her poem for which Blagden’s letter ‘supplied the Lucifer match’ (referred to in GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/130). She has not given a copy to anyone else for she has sent them straight to ‘New York, to be printed in the first place in the Independent & then to subside into the next edition of ‘Poems before Congress’. She mentions Sophia Eckley and her book. Of Eckley, she says ‘She sticks, dear, like treacle,—or dissolved lollipop– Once I praised the sweetness—now I feel very sick at the adhesiveness.’ She and Robert Browning are promised ‘the earliest copy’ of Eckley’s book and asked to speak ‘in favour’ of the book to their friends. Barrett Browning says she would not even do this for Blagden without first reading her book. She gets ‘a little ease’ hearing the Eckleys will go to Lucca whereas the Brownings will go to Siena. She complains about the publisher Chapman and makes vague comments on Lytton’s book (Lucile) but she has not read it yet. She makes further comments on Italian political situation. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 314–319 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4664. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/130 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/130 110010258 priref 110010258 old reference no. Browning(EB)/185 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010258 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010258 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 May 2– [1860] 1860-05-02 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT