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Barrett Browning appears shocked by Blagden\u2019s assertion that she may not like Blagden's book or find it \u201ctoo romantic\u201d: \u2018Have I said or done anything wrong, I wonder?'. She says they normally agree on books except Lytton\u2019s recent work \u2018Elisabetta Sirani\u2019 which Barrett Browning still thinks is \u2018poor\u2019. She asks for the name of the poem in All the year round that Blagden has said she will also not like (\u201cAdolfus, Duke of Guelders,\u201d by Lytton). She says she liked the part of Agnes quoted in the Athen\u00e6um and that she is \u2018very anxious\u2019 to see the novel. She mentions Blagden\u2019s lack of sympathy for Lady Lytton\u2019s inability to accept a daughter in law such as Lytton\u2019s former fianc\u00e9e Carolina Groeninx van Zoelen. \n\nBarrett Browning says to Blagden that \u2018you see England a little softened by time & distance\u2019, and she \u2018will repent IT ONCE\u2019 if she goes back. She says they (the Brownings) may take rooms in Rome in the winter months but they will return to Florence in the summer; she cannot give up Florence. Unlike Blagden, Barrett Browning says would be happy to never be forced to leave Italy. She asks whether Blagden really has the \u2018heart\u2019 to \u2018abandon\u2019 them and to leave behind \u2018this new-born nation\u2019 and \u2018go back to Queen Victoria & the \u201cglorious constitution,\u201d with church attached'. She also discusses how servant\u2019s wages will be higher in England than Italy. She says she agrees with Blagden on Adam Bede and that they esteem George Eliot equally: \u2018She is great\u2019. Barrett Browning comments on the political situation and possibility of war. She mentions Fauvety, Mazzini and Garibaldi. She says she is in a \u2018straight\u2019 about asking Dall\u2019Ongaro to be a translator feeling he is surely \u2018too good\u2019 for such work. \n\nThis letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 74\u201377 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4874."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/164","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917\/5\/164"},{"priref":"110010292","type":"priref","value":"110010292"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/147"},{"type":"old reference no.","value":"Browning(EB)\/204"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010292","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110010292"}],"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":"April 17 [1861]"}],"value":"1861-04-17"}],"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"}}