Correspondence

4591.  Isa Blagden to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 159.

[Florence]

[February 1860] [1]

<***> Garibaldi refuses to see any one or to speak to a soul. Mr Trollope declares that many at Turin say the facts were not so bad as represented and that it was <***>

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive.

1. On the reverse of this fragment, Francesco Dall’Ongaro has written a short epigram entitled “Perché da Porta Pia,” which has been identified and dated by RB: “Florence, February, 1860.” We use this information as the basis for our dating. This fragment was given to Philibert Milsand (Joseph Milsand’s younger brother) for his autograph collection.

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