1742580342000 1717604005000 Standard Record object-110010260 1747160956270 1719854039000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010260 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010260 612bc968-64b7-368c-b00f-c2835495ca18 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa Length mm 246 Width mm 194 Leaf 1 Length 193 Width 123 Leaf 2 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning says French troops are leaving Italy. She comments on the political situation including ‘The Roman & French governments are on the worst terms just now’. She mentions of Garibaldi and Cavour, praises Edmond About’s La Nouvelle carte d’Europe (1860) and mentions the possibility of conflict. Of Theodore Parker's death, she says ‘Poor Mr Parker!’. She has been sent a poem from The Re-Burial, or The Grave in Galilee (1860) published anonymously by Thomas Jones (1819–94): ‘Neither poetry nor logic struck me much’. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 28, pp. 5–8 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2022). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4670. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/132 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/132 110010260 priref 110010260 old reference no. Browning(EB)/186 old reference no. Browning(EB)/222 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010260 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010260 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 Wednesday. [16 May 1860] 1860-05-16 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT