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Barrett Browning confirms they receive the newspapers and she \u2018take[s] comfort\u2019 in them. There are lots of \u2018impossible rumours\u2019 in the air regarding the political situation. She notes Jean-Jacques Amp\u00e8re\u2019s criticism of France. She does not speak to him of France due to his \u2018hatred of the Emperor\u2019. She talks about the current situation in Rome: \u2018Stabbing & robbing are every day events\u2014which makes me a little nervous when Robert is out at nights\u2013\u2019. She mentions a \u2018tableaux\u2019 at the home of Isabel Charlotte Cholmeley. She has sent \u2018one or two more lyrics to America\u2019. She talks about the weather and her health. She is \u2018feeling better able to live from the beginning to the end of a day, which a little while ago appeared every morning almost impossible\u2019.\n\nBarrett Browning would not like to go to Paris in the summer but they will have to. Robert Browning must see his father and it would not be possible for Robert Browning Sr to come to them, however she would be happy \u2018never to set foot out of Italy again\u2019. She says \u2018the work I have to do, I can best do here in the silence\u2019. She looks for Agnes Tremorne in the advertisements and asks whether La Beata (1861) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope is out. She further comments on the political situation. She and Robert Browning are against the building of piazzas (suggested by Theodosia Trollope in an article) in Italy while the political situation is still unresolved. She comments on Theodosia Trollope\u2019s Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution which she criticises as providing \u2018strictly an English view\u2019, nonetheless \u2018there\u2019s so much which excites to sympathy with Italy in Mrs Trollope\u2019s book, that I wish it success, & am resigned even to its unlawful flattery of our people, as that seems to be the direct way to their hearts\u2019. She says she still feels \u2018a little malignantly towards Prussia\u2019.\n\nThis letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 1\u20135 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4838."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/155","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/155"},{"priref":"110010283","type":"priref","value":"110010283"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/190"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/210"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010283","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010283"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1861,"latest":1861,"note":[{"value":"Feb 25\u2013 [1861]"}],"value":"1861-02-25"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-164438","uid":"adlib-agent-164438","uuid":"134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51"},"summary_title":"Browning, Elizabeth Barrett"}]}]},"summary_title":"MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden","title":[{"value":"MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}