1742580342000 1718031490000 Standard Record object-110010278 1747160956327 1721908450000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010278 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010278 f001e4ea-e7d9-327f-85bc-93ff2df879e5 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209871 adlib-agent-209871 000a44b9-82c6-3fce-96db-5f591f7114b3 Hosmer, Harriet person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert Length mm 115 Width mm 51 Envelope Length mm 178 Width mm 135 Leaf 1 Length mm 178 Width mm 135 Leaf 2 Length mm 178 Width mm 135 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Blagden is unwell, partly as a result of her maidservant being pregnant (‘poor Emilia with her life torn to rags because one man more is unscrupulous & selfish’). Barrett Browning encourages Blagden to go to Casa Guidi. She asks about Mr Trollope’s novel (La Beata). She talks about an old work of hers (‘De Profundis’) emerging and explains the context in which it was originally written (following her brother’s death). She mentions John Bowring and his wife (Deborah Castle). She has seen Hatty (Harriet Hosmer) once. She refers to photos Robert Browning gave her of the Pope and Antonelli. She also makes reference to Lytton, the burning of the summer palace, hypocrisy of English newspapers, the Marchese and Madame di Torrearsa and Garibaldi. She further comments on the political situation in Italy. She asks what Blagden thinks of Austria. Barrett Browning says Blagden amused her very much with story of Azeglio. Barrett Browning wants to be ‘among the first’ readers of Blagden’s novel but it is unlikely to be brought out just now. In her postscript, she mentions Margaret Elliott and the sudden deaths of the Count de Montemolin and his family. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 28, pp. 286–291 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2022). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4815. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/150 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/150 110010278 priref 110010278 old reference no. Browning(EB)/129 old reference no. Browning(EB)/167 old reference no. Browning(EB)/G120 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010278 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010278 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 [22 January 1861] 1861-01-22 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT