Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 5-9, 1860
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Title
Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 5-9, 1860
Subject
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Blagden, Isabella "Isa", 1816?-1873
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Italy--Rome
Social Events
Relationships--Networks
Description
Elizabeth Browning tells Isa Blagden that she "will offend Miss Cushman" if she does not visit the actress in Rome.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning LettersCreator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Source
Armstrong Browning Library, The Browning Letters, Digital Collection
Date
1860-01-05/1860-01-09
Type
Reference
Letter Item Type Metadata
Text
[page 1] We hear of disturbances at Ancona too– How good you are to Mr Landor, & what a picturesque account of him you send– Not a word of Rome. Let me tell you Isa you will offend Miss Cushman if you refuse her after all– Hatty is better but then I think you & I & Kate have a right to blow our silver trumpets. Roberts & Peni’s best love—your’s in all love–
[page 2, transcription missing]
[page 3] you (oh, the shame of teazing you!) but can you get "The Council of Trent" by Paolo Sarpi, published by Barbera (opposite the Palazzo non-finito[)], in 4 vols—also, Lemonnier’s edition of Ariosto’s Orlando (if there is one) and send them to Odo Russell Esq. by the intervention of Mr Corbett? Will you also, on pain of giving me a pang indeed, instantly repay yourself thro’ Wilson? Else .. dreadful threat .. I will not easily ask you such a favor again. The "Sarpi" would be confiscated here; coming by ordinary means. Good bye, t’abbraccio, ti striiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingo, as emphatic opera singers accent it. Ba is quite well. Yours affectionately ever RB -------------- [Address, in EBB’s hand]: Toscana / Mademoiselle Blagden / Casa Guidi / Via Maggio. / Firenze.
[page 2, transcription missing]
[page 3] you (oh, the shame of teazing you!) but can you get "The Council of Trent" by Paolo Sarpi, published by Barbera (opposite the Palazzo non-finito[)], in 4 vols—also, Lemonnier’s edition of Ariosto’s Orlando (if there is one) and send them to Odo Russell Esq. by the intervention of Mr Corbett? Will you also, on pain of giving me a pang indeed, instantly repay yourself thro’ Wilson? Else .. dreadful threat .. I will not easily ask you such a favor again. The "Sarpi" would be confiscated here; coming by ordinary means. Good bye, t’abbraccio, ti striiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingo, as emphatic opera singers accent it. Ba is quite well. Yours affectionately ever RB -------------- [Address, in EBB’s hand]: Toscana / Mademoiselle Blagden / Casa Guidi / Via Maggio. / Firenze.
From
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
To
Blagden, Isabella "Isa", 1816?-1873
Location
Rome, Italy
Geocode (Latitude)
41.8989553
Geocode (Longitude)
12.4730842
Location (Recipient)
Toscana / Mademoiselle Blagden / Casa Guidi / Via Maggio. / Firenze
Geocode Recipient (Latitude)
43.7665806
Geocode Recipient (Longitude)
11.2488502
Annotations
[Digitization Note] envelope only; letter is written on the envelope; Blagden album; From Album titled "Robert Browning. Poet. Story of his Platonic Friendship with Miss Isa Blagden. Contained in a long series of Autograph letters from the poet to his friend."; letter owned by multiple locations [ABL & Fitzwilliam]; first pages of letter missing from collection
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Citation
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, “Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 5-9, 1860,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 19, 2024, https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/612.