1742580342000 1718029656000 Standard Record object-110010275 1747160956451 1721908043000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010275 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010275 bc927cdc-5e05-3c56-9156-c5c43c549b82 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-133923 adlib-agent-133923 c23b36e4-4035-3196-8e11-fa224e74c19b Thackeray, William Makepeace person reference agent-209872 adlib-agent-209872 4abc2c2a-b652-30f8-b410-5bf46be6763a Stowe, Harriet Beecher person reference agent-154632 adlib-agent-154632 504a4575-e963-34f0-ae3f-87e61cbf1707 Field, Kate Length mm 181 Width mm 148 Leaf 1 Length mm 181 Width mm 148 Leaf 2 Length mm 181 Width mm 148 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning has been very sick and weak. She asks why Blagden did not go long since to Casa Guidi. Barrett Browning has not seen anyone only Mr Cartwright. She comments on the Italian and French political situation and the Emperor. She dislike Mr Trollope’s ‘Italian paper’ in Cornhill. She criticises Thackeray for allowing ‘amateur friends’ to contribute to Cornhill. She comments on spiritualism and communication with the spirits including an experience from Harriet Beecher Stowe who says ‘that for the fifth time she has had a communication—from her son—unsought on her side’. She is sorry for Sophia Cottrell’s eye-related suffering and asks after the Cottrells. She sends her love to Kate Field who was dealing with money issues and says ‘American politics make me anxious’ (regarding the possibility of civil war). This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 28, pp. 262–265 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2022). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4805. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/147 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/147 110010275 priref 110010275 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G66 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010275 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010275 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 Monday. [7 January 1861] 1861-01-07 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT