1742580342000 1718126091000 Standard Record object-110010287 1747160956152 1721909475000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010287 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010287 f44b5304-360b-37ea-8019-10eecba3b3e7 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-154632 adlib-agent-154632 504a4575-e963-34f0-ae3f-87e61cbf1707 Field, Kate Length mm 179 Width mm 149 Leaf 2 Length mm 180 Width mm 149 Leaf 1 Length mm 180 Width mm 149 Leaf 3 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning discusses ‘the G business’ which she is annoyed by (a possible proposal of marriage made to Blagden by Dr Gryzanowski despite seemingly being interested in Annettee Bracken). She says Annette has called and looks well. Barrett Browning cannot understand Dr Gryzanowski. Robert Browning is ‘is furious of course’ but won’t say anything. She says Anette should not have allowed the going to Empoli and expresses confusion regarding Gryzanowski’s motives. Barrett Browning says she liked Dr Gryzanowski so feels pained on his account. Blagden is worth a ‘hecatomb of such men’. She moves on to discuss Agnes Tremorne which has been commented favourably on by Mrs Procter which pleases Barrett Browning. Mrs Procter doesn’t give her approval easily and ‘has the habit of London literary judgments’. Barrett Browning says she wishes she had forced herself on Blagden’s proofs. She consoles her not to deprecate and that a first book is never to be her best as is ‘experience is bought’. She says ‘there is not much’ to Miss Brown’s verses. She is also disappointed by Massimo d’Azeglio’s pamphlet. She comments on the Italian political situation and the Pope. She discusses the merits of Dell’Ongaro as a translator. It would be beneath him and their politics don’t align. She will try her hand at Italian prose one day. She is happy Blagden likes the photo of Robert Browning and is grateful for the picture of Kate Field but also wanted one of Blagden. She says ‘Robert is out or wd send love to any extremity’ and comments on the Bowens. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 48–51 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4861. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/159 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/159 110010287 priref 110010287 old reference no. Browning(EB)/133 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010287 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010287 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 [ca. 1 April 1861] 1861-04-01 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT