1742580342000 1718113819000 Standard Record object-110010283 1747160956454 1721909093000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010283 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010283 a0bd9ef5-dfc5-32ee-96ad-5811edc0bf44 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-189594 adlib-agent-189594 a9fbc48a-a86a-39e7-8549-812e9224f44f Browning, Robert (senior) person reference agent-209876 adlib-agent-209876 f65db538-749a-31db-a5d0-1d192d2410a3 Trollope, Theodosia Length mm 178 Width mm 148 Leaf 4 Length mm 178 Width mm 149 Leaf 1 Length mm 178 Width mm 149 Leaf 2 Length mm 180 Width mm 149 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning confirms they receive the newspapers and she ‘take[s] comfort’ in them. There are lots of ‘impossible rumours’ in the air regarding the political situation. She notes Jean-Jacques Ampère’s criticism of France. She does not speak to him of France due to his ‘hatred of the Emperor’. She talks about the current situation in Rome: ‘Stabbing & robbing are every day events—which makes me a little nervous when Robert is out at nights–’. She mentions a ‘tableaux’ at the home of Isabel Charlotte Cholmeley. She has sent ‘one or two more lyrics to America’. She talks about the weather and her health. She is ‘feeling better able to live from the beginning to the end of a day, which a little while ago appeared every morning almost impossible’. Barrett 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 ‘never to set foot out of Italy again’. She says ‘the work I have to do, I can best do here in the silence’. 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’s Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution which she criticises as providing ‘strictly an English view’, nonetheless ‘there’s so much which excites to sympathy with Italy in Mrs Trollope’s 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’. She says she still feels ‘a little malignantly towards Prussia’. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 1–5 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4838. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/155 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/155 110010283 priref 110010283 old reference no. Browning(EB)/190 old reference no. Browning(EB)/210 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010283 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010283 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 Feb 25– [1861] 1861-02-25 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT