1742580342000 1718032412000 Standard Record object-110010280 1747160956271 1721908824000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010280 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010280 41a6369f-0591-3daa-9c34-ba41a84c2d64 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert person reference agent-209871 adlib-agent-209871 000a44b9-82c6-3fce-96db-5f591f7114b3 Hosmer, Harriet person reference agent-164387 adlib-agent-164387 24902472-07ac-3f2b-84f0-9d8028e7ca40 Hawthorne, Nathaniel person reference agent-154632 adlib-agent-154632 504a4575-e963-34f0-ae3f-87e61cbf1707 Field, Kate Length mm 192 Width mm 128 Leaf 2 Length mm 250 Width mm 192 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning thanks Blagden for some photographs she received from her. Mdme de Schwartz came to see Barrett Browning. She comments on the Italian political situation and the fact that according to prophecy something monumental will occur in 1867. Mr Cartwright is ‘ill with Roman fever’. She makes further comments on political situation and involvement of the French. She asks whether Trollope’s new novel is coming out and whether Chapman has ‘taken’ it. She will accept Blagden’s novel ‘with gratitude’. Robert Browning wonders why Blagden does not want him to read it. Of Harriet Hosmer, she says ‘Hatty dines out every day of the week—so there is no wonder that I never see her.’. Sophia Eckley has visited and Barrett Browning sees through her ‘bad acting’. She talks about Eckley's acquaintance with Miss Parkes which explains the review of Eckley’s book in the September 1860 issue of The English Woman’s Journal. She asks whether Blagden has heard the ‘dreadful news’ about Una Hawthorne, ‘that she is or has been in a state of raving madness’. Hawthorne has had some beneficial effects with the help of a ‘female mesmerist’. Barrett Browning says ‘If she had died at Rome the misery would have been less’ for the Hawthornes. She refers in the postscript to the secession of states in the United States and sends love to Kate Field. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 28, pp. 312–316 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2022). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4824. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/152 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/152 110010280 priref 110010280 old reference no. Browning(EB)/146 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010280 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010280 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 Thursday. [7 February 1861] 1861-02-07 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT