1742580342000 1718030511000 Standard Record object-110010277 1747160956257 1721908408000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010277 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010277 56581567-9e4c-3e85-8ef4-7804fb867ac7 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-189664 adlib-agent-189664 61e98f4c-0dd7-3812-9112-e51aa4c4f745 Jameson, Anna person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia Length mm 148 Width mm 90 Leaf 4 Length mm 179 Width mm 148 Leaf 1 Length mm 179 Width mm 148 Leaf 2 Length mm 180 Width mm 148 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning is ‘anxious’ that Blagden is unwell and urges her to go to Casa Guidi which will be warmer. She encourages her to let Dr Grisonowsky cure her quickly. She has not been well herself however the attack passed quickly: ‘I hope I shall keep from bad attacks, having not much strength in body, nerve, or spirit to bear up resistingly against them–’. She mentions Blagden's veiled references to Blagden's maidservant Emilia who was ‘not well and went home’. Barrett Browning infers this means she was pregnant. Barrett Browning gives her and Robert Browning’s opinions on a subscription raised after Mrs Jameson’s death. She comments on the discussion of spiritualism in England. John Bowring has been to see them and spoken to them about the ‘panic’ in England over the possibility of invasion. Bowring said that the ‘emperor’s intentions towards Italy had been undeviatingly good’ and ‘the Italian question was only beginning to be understood in England’. She makes further comments on the Italian political situation. They have had a letter from Ruskin who has written in ‘a very desponding state about his work & life & the world’. She asks Blagden for recommendations of French books as Robert Browning has subscribed for her. She has seen and written to Sophia Eckley once. She makes disparaging comments about Eckley and in her postscript expresses her worry for America. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 28, pp. 281–285 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2022). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4813. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/149 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/149 110010277 priref 110010277 old reference no. Browning(EB)/166 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010277 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010277 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 Monday– [21 January 1861] 1861-01-21 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT