1742580342000 1718124429000 Standard Record object-110010285 1747160956249 1721909234000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010285 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010285 29d930a1-e050-3234-862d-54dec9ffa5cb 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209848 adlib-agent-209848 79523e6a-6a3c-30b6-bdb1-9d9c7ce8dece Barrett Browning, Robert Wiedeman person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia person reference agent-209871 adlib-agent-209871 000a44b9-82c6-3fce-96db-5f591f7114b3 Hosmer, Harriet Length mm 190 Width mm 126 Leaf 3 Length mm 257 Width mm 190 Leaf 2 Length mm 258 Width mm 190 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning comments on the Italian political situation and a demonstration taking place which is ‘“protect[ed]”’ by the French troops. Pen went out amongst them and met many captains before being returned home very happy. Pantaleone is exiled. She asks why Massimo d’Azeglio argues against Rome as the capital and criticises Lord John and Lord Cowley (Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley), saying that ‘Napolean’s position in France is hard enough’. She discusses Sophia Eckley taking out a book of poems eventually as is her youngest brother. They (the Brownings) have seen an advertisement for Agnes Tremorne and are very pleased by it. She makes some comments on grammar and on Anthony Trollope. Carlo Matteucci is coming to Rome. Barrett Browning has been ‘long in writing’ as she is working on some ‘Italian lyrics’ and is busy with Pen’s lessons with the Abbé as well. She has met Lady Annabella Noel lately, Lord Byron’s grand-daughter and Lady Marion Alford, the Marquis of Northampton’s daughter, who she was less impressed by but whom Hatty (Harriet Hosmer) calls ‘divine’. Barrett Browning asks what Blagden thinks of the photographs she is sending. She says not to apologise for Charles Christopher Bowen and that Robert Browning was ‘vexed’ that Blagden thought her ‘friends not good enough for his acquaintance’. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 26–32 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4853. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/157 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/157 110010285 priref 110010285 old reference no. Browning(EB)/165 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010285 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010285 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 March 20. [1861] 1861-03-20 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT