1742580342000 1718190502000 Standard Record object-110010297 1747160955951 1721919526000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010297 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010297 7de3d1a7-8107-37c9-a146-122c2f6db879 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-209871 adlib-agent-209871 000a44b9-82c6-3fce-96db-5f591f7114b3 Hosmer, Harriet person reference agent-209848 adlib-agent-209848 79523e6a-6a3c-30b6-bdb1-9d9c7ce8dece Barrett Browning, Robert Wiedeman Length mm 180 Width mm 149 Leaf 1 Length mm 180 Width mm 149 Leaf 2 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. This is an incomplete/fragmentary letter. Barrett Browning says Robert Browning has not finished reading Agnes Tremorne and she will allow him to express his opinion. She says: 'I have a few passing criticisms, though he considers your style at least as good as Anthony Trollope’s' and tells Blagden not to think 'the delay, the slowness, a proof of indifference'. She laments Robert Browning's poor reading habits. She says he spends his mornings working on his sculptures in clay: ' And really he has brought me a most beautiful little torso of a Venus after the antique', and praises his skills. She mentions Hatty (Harriet Hosmer) who would be happy with Blagden and Florence though Barrett Browning says she thinks 'a summer at Siena' would be better for both Hosmer and Blagden. She mentions Blagden's publisher, Smith, Elder & Co., leaving out a scene in Agnes Tremorne, which Barrett Browning considers an 'insolence'. She says her sister Arabel enjoyed Agnes Tremorne and was 'not struck ... by an impropriety'. She mentions Charles Synge Christopher Bowen in reference to his review of Agnes Tremorne and discuses Pen and an event he attended at the French embassy in the final paragraph of the letter. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 112–114 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4890. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/169 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/169 110010297 priref 110010297 old reference no. Browning(EB)/143 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010297 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010297 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 [ca. 11 May 1861] 1861-05-11 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT