^{Note 1 in page 594} The Browning Collections (London, 1913), p. 36. Some copies of the catalogue contain handwritten notes telling who bought each item and for what price.

^{Note 2 in page 594} The date is determined by the Brownings' visit to Siena. They left Florence on 1 Sept. 1850 for Siena, where they rented a house about a mile and a half outside the city, and returned to Florence in October.

^{Note 3 in page 594} At Vallombrosa—Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Frederic G. Kenyon (New York, 1897), i, 458.

^{Note 4 in page 594} Gerardine (Bate) Macpherson, niece of Mrs. Jameson and wife of Robert Macpherson, Roman photographer.

^{Note 5 in page 595} A Miss Thompson who married Dr. August Emil Braun (1809–56), German archaeologist.

^{Note 6 in page 595} Miss Blagden spent the winter in Rome, but the Brownings did not go there until 1853.

^{Note 7 in page 595} Mrs. Browning was recuperating after her fourth miscarriage (28 July 1850).

^{Note 8 in page 595} Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, the Brownings' only child, was born in Florence on 9 March 1849. He nicknamed himself “Penini,” later shortened to “Pen.”

^{Note 9 in page 595} Wet nurse.

^{Note 10 in page 595} Tennyson married Emily Sellwood on 13 June 1850.

^{Note 11 in page 596} In July 1853 the Brownings visited the Bagni di Lucca, where they had previously summered in 1849 and which they were again to visit in 1857, and remained there three months.

^{Note 12 in page 596} That is, “Ba,” the first syllable of ba-by.

^{Note 13 in page 596} François M. C. Fourier (1772–1837).

^{Note 14 in page 596} Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–73) was later (1855) to be present at the famous séance when he touched the hands which D. D. Home caused to place a garland on Mrs. Browning's head—Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to Her Sister, 1846–1859 (London, 1929), p. 220. His son, Robert (1831–91), diplomat and author (“Owen Meredith”), became the first Earl Lytton.

^{Note 15 in page 597} Henry Spicer (d. 1891), author of Sights and Sounds: The Mystery of the Day: Comprising an Entire History of the American Spirit Manifestations (London, 1853), and Facts and Fancies (1853), a sequel.

^{Note 16 in page 597} Eleanor Jane (Potts) Marston, wife of John Westland Marston (1819–90), dramatist and critic.

^{Note 17 in page 597} Euphrasia Fanny Haworth (1801–83), an early friend of Browning, and (after 1851) of Mrs. Browning.

^{Note 18 in page 597} Philip Henry Stanhope (1781–1855), fourth Earl (1816), was noted, like his father, for his eccentricities.

^{Note 19 in page 597} Thomas Gold Appleton, Boston wit, later (1856) met Mrs. Browning and described her as “a little concentrated nightingale, living in a bower of curls, her heart throbbing against the bars of the world”—Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. S. Longfellow (Boston, 1891), ii, 309.

^{Note 20 in page 597} Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French poet and diplomat, whose English wife, Marianne (Birch) de Lamartine (1795–1863), was acquainted with the Brownings.

^{Note 21 in page 597} Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–72), was on the staff of the Athenaeum, a letter to which on 2 July 1853 gave the result of some experiments in table-turning, the tendency of which was to show that the motion of the table was due to the unconscious muscular action on the part of the persons touching the table (Sir Frederic Kenyon's note in Letters, ii 122).

^{Note 22 in page 598} Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795–1864), Senator from New York, wrote an appendix for J. W. Edmonds and G. T. Dexter's Spiritualism (New York, 1853).

^{Note 23 in page 598} Horatio Greenough (1805–52), the first American sculptor to go to Italy, resided there from 1828 to 1851. He married (1837) Louisa Gore of Boston.

^{Note 24 in page 598} William Wetmore Story (1819–95), American sculptor, poet, and critic, and close friend of Browning for over forty years.

^{Note 26 in page 598} Mrs. Browning's letters suggest, between the lines, that Miss Blagden did not like Mrs. Story.

^{Note 26 in page 598} Mary Isabella (Irwin) Brotherton, the wife of Edward Brotherton (1814–66), Sweden-borgian. By means of automatic writing she produced some Greek without knowing the language. Mrs. Browning met her later in 1853.

^{Note 27 in page 598} Frederick Tennyson (1807–98), elder brother of Alfred, and himself a poet. In 1839 he married Maria Giulotti, daughter of the chief magistrate of Siena, and resided in Italy until 1859.

^{Note 28 in page 598} Sara Jane Clarke, better known as “Grace Greenwood,” the author of Greenwood Leaves (1852), etc., married (Oct. 1853) L. K. Lippincott.

^{Note 29 in page 599} William Page (1811–85), the “American Titian.” He painted (1854) a “magnificent portrait” of Browning which unfortunately faded. The portrait has recently been acquired by Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and has been restored (Irving Stanley, “Portrait of William Page,” Christian Science Monitor, 31 Dec. 1949, p. 10).

^{Note 30 in page 599} Louisa Alexander (d. 1858), an invalid whom Miss Blagden brought with her from England in 1852 and kept with her in Italy until Louisa departed for India in 1855.

^{Note 31 in page 599} The cocker spaniel presented to Elizabeth Barrett by Miss Mitford, the inspiration of Miss Barrett's poem “To Flush, My Dog,” and of Virginia Woolf's biography Flush (1933).

^{Note 32 in page 599} Postscript in Penini's handwriting.

^{Note 33 in page 599} The Brownings returned to Florence from Lucca in Oct. 1853 and, after a brief stay, set out for their first visit to Rome. Miss Blagden could not find an apartment in Rome for them, but the Storys were successful in securing rooms on Via Bocca di Leone. The Brownings remained in Rome until May 1854, when they returned to Florence.

^{Note 34 in page 599} A scudo was worth about 4s. 5d.

^{Note 35 in page 599} Diomede Pantaleoni (1810–85), Italian physician and patriot.

^{Note 38 in page 600} It was during this month, Oct. 1853, that Turkey declared war on Russia. England and France later intervened. 37 The date is determined by the reference to Louisa's departure (see above, n. 30).

^{Note 58 in page 601} When Hawthorne visited Florence in 1858, Ada Shepard, the American governess he had engaged for his children, undertook to teach Miss Blagden Greek. Miss Blagden then said that there had been only one Greek teacher in all Florence and that he had left the city (typescript of Miss Shepard's letters at Yale).

^{Note 39 in page 601} Edward Valentine Blomfield (1788–1816), English classical scholar.

^{Note 40 in page 601} In June 1855 the Brownings and Miss Blagden left Florence for Marseilles. There they separated; Miss Blagden went on by train to Paris, and the Brownings followed.

^{Note 41 in page 601} For Mrs. Browning's dependence on morphine see Jeannette Marks, The Family of the Barrett (New York, 1938), pp. 619–622.

^{Note 42 in page 601} Later Mrs. Brice, a Florentine friend of Miss Blagden as early as 1850.

^{Note 43 in page 601} Not identified.

^{Note 44 in page 602} The date is determined by the content, which is the same as that in an unpublished letter to Arabel Barrett in the Berg Collection of the V. Y. Public Library. The Brownings were at the Bagni from 30 July to 11 Oct. 1857.

^{Note 46 in page 602} Triple asterisks indicate that the letter is incomplete.

^{Note 46 in page 602} On 28 Sept. [1857], Mrs. Browning wrote to Miss Haworth about Pen Browning's fever and reported that Pen had said “You Pet! don't be unhappy for me. Think it's a poor little boy in the street, and be just only a little sorry, and not unhappy at all” (Letters of EBB, ii, 274).

^{Note 47 in page 602} David Eckley and his wife, Sophia May (Tuckerman) Eckley, were wealthy Bostonians who were very close to and very generous to the Brownings from 1857–60 (see below, n. 88).

^{Note 48 in page 602} Elizabeth Wilson, Mrs. Browning's maid. In July 1855, in Paris, she married Ferdinando Romagnoli, the Browning's man-servant. At the time this letter was written she was thought pregnant and returned to Florence.

^{Note 49 in page 602} Edward Goodban, printseller, kept a shop opposite the Café Doney in Florence (Murray's Central Italy [1861], p. 80).

^{Note 60 in page 602} Annunziata, the new maid, remained with the Brownings until Mrs. Browning's death in 1861. Subsequently she was employed by various Englishwomen, among them Lady Duff Gordon.

^{Note 61 in page 602} Robert Lytton and Miss Blagden had been at the Bagni while the Brownings were there, but he had a serious attack of gastric fever and returned to Florence where he stayed at Miss Blagden's villa. Lytton's The Wanderer was published in Jan. 1859.

^{Note 62 in page 602} John Forster (1812–76), influential critic, historian, and biographer, saw both Lytton's and the Brownings' work through the press in England while they were abroad.

^{Note 53 in page 603} This portion was omitted by Sir Frederic Kenyon from his edition, and its omission is indicated by the first ellipsis on p. 291 of Vol. ii.

^{Note 54 in page 603} Miss Blagden's villa, now the Villa Brichieri-Colombi, on the heights of Bellosguardo outside Florence.

^{Note 55 in page 603} An unpublished letter in the Boston Public Lib. from Miss Blagden to Kate Field mentions a Miss E. Alexander of London as a friend.

^{Note 56 in page 603} Annette Bracken, a young English lady of means, who occupied the Villa Brichieri with Miss Blagden during 1857 and 1858.

^{Note 57 in page 603} In Nov. 1858 Miss Blagden went to visit a friend in Madrid and was back in Florence by March 1859.

^{Note 58 in page 603} Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), Irish philanthropist and religious writer.

^{Note 59 in page 603} Marguerite A. Power (1815?-67), author, editor of The Keepsake (1851–57), and niece of the Countess of Blessington, whose memoir she wrote (1850).

^{Note 60 in page 603} Agnes Tremorne (1861).

^{Note 61 in page 604} On 28 Nov. 1859 the Brownings left Florence and on 3 Dec. arrived in Rome where they remained until June 1860. Miss Blagden spent these months in Florence.

^{Note 62 in page 604} A Roman dollar was worth about 4s.

^{Note 63 in page 604} Charlotte Saunders Cushman (1816–76), American actress who for many years lived at 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome.

^{Note 64 in page 604} The Brownings' apartment in Casa Guidi was easier to heat than Miss Blagden's large villa.

^{Note 66 in page 604} Northwind.

^{Note 66 in page 605} W. C. Cartwright, of Aynhoe Park, Brackley, close friend of Browning and especially of Sir Frederick Leighton.

^{Note 67 in page 605} In 1859 the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians; and the states of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena overthrew their Austrian potentates. The temporal power of the Pope was threatened but maintained through French intervention.

^{Note 68 in page 605} The Nazione and Monitore were liberal newspapers banned in Rome and procurable there only surreptitiously.

^{Note 69 in page 605} Odo Russell (1829–84), English diplomat, son of Lady William, and nephew of Lord John Russell. His diplomatic service in Italy (1858–70) began as secretary of the legation at Florence but resident at Rome.

^{Note 70 in page 605} Louis Napoleon.

^{Note 71 in page 606} Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830–1908), American sculptress, resident in Rome after 1852.

^{Note 72 in page 606} Wilson (see n. 48) went religiously insane, “quite mad,” while the Brownings and her husband were in Rome and she was in Florence (unpublished letter from Mrs. Browning to Arabella Barrett in V. Y. Public Lib.).

^{Note 73 in page 606} The date is determined by the reference to Mrs. Stowe's visit to Rome.

^{Note 74 in page 606} Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96), author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, made her third and last trip to Europe in 1859–60.

^{Note 75 in page 606} Antonio Gallenga (1812–95), journalist and politician, correspondent for the London Times.

^{Note 76 in page 607} A novel by Mrs. Stowe (1859).

^{Note 77 in page 607} Kate Field (1838–96), daughter of Joseph Field, American actor, was studying music in Florence.

^{Note 78 in page 607} Marchese Scipione Bargagli had been minister from the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the Holy See, but upon the flight of the Grand Duke and the annexation of Tuscany to United Italy (1859) his ministry was abolished (records in Archivio di Stato, Florence).

^{Note 79 in page 607} Miss Blagden had written asking the price of a cameo by Saulini, Roman artist famous for his portraits in cameo—Letters of Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, arr. A. Joseph Armstrong (Waco, Texas, 1923), p. 93.

^{Note 80 in page 607} Not identified.

^{Note 81 in page 607} Theodore Parker (1810–60), Unitarian clergyman, died in Florence on 10 May 1860, after having spent the winter in Rome. Miss Cobbe later (1863–70) edited his works in 14 vols.

^{Note 82 in page 608} Napoleon III et Italie (1859).

^{Note 83 in page 608} Mrs. Cora Hatch (1840–1923), American medium. Longfellow attended one of her séances and wrote, “I was not much edified, but thought her very superior to her audience” (Life of H. W. Longfellow, ii, 347).

^{Note 84 in page 608} Thomas R. Hazard, American spiritualist, who “believes everything, walks and talks with spirits, and impresses Robert with a sense of veracity, which is more remarkable” (Letters of EBB, ii, 355).

^{Note 85 in page 608} Daniel Dunglass Home (1833–86), Scottish-American medium par excellence.

^{Note 86 in page 608} The Athenaeum for 17 March 1860 contained a hostile review and a misinterpretation of Mrs. Browning's Poems before Congress. She attempted to correct the misinterpretation in the issue of 7 April.

^{Note 87 in page 609} “The Sword of Castruccio Castracani.”

^{Note 88 in page 609} In the spring of 1860 Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Eckley (see above, n. 47) had a falling out, and all subsequent references to Mrs. Eckley are bitter, especially “Where's Agnes?,” Mrs. Browning's poem inspired by Mrs. Eckley.

^{Note 89 in page 609} Sophia May Eckley, The Oldest of the Old World (London, 1860).

^{Note 90 in page 609} Dr. Ernest George Frederick Grisanowsky (1824–88), Prussian physician who practised in Florence.

^{Note 91 in page 610} The Brownings and Miss Blagden spent the summer of 1860 in Siena.

^{Note 92 in page 610} Miss Blagden disliked the Bagni di Lucca because it was there that Lytton contracted gastric fever (see above, n. 51).

^{Note 93 in page 610} The Italian priest who tutored Pen Browning and Edith Story.

^{Note 94 in page 610} The Eckleys' governess.

^{Note 95 in page 610} The Eckleys' son, David (b. 1849).

^{Note 96 in page 610} Edward Chapman, head of the publishing firm of Chapman & Hall.

^{Note 97 in page 610} Poems before Congress (see above, n. 86).

^{Note 98 in page 610} Frederic Chapman (1823–95). 99 Lucile (1860).

^{Note 100 in page 610} Mrs. Browning's remark identifies Miss Blagden as the prototype of Lytton's heroine.

^{Note 101 in page 610} Francesco Dall' Ongaro (1808–73), Italian writer, professor of dramatic literature at Florence, and translator of Mrs. Browning into Italian.

^{Note 102 in page 611} This portion was omitted by Sir Frederic Kenyon from his edition, and its omission is indicated by the second ellipsis on p. 412 of Vol. ii. The date is determined by the reference to the subscription (see below, n. 105).

^{Note 103 in page 611} Miss Blagden's maid.

^{Note 104 in page 611} In 1864 Miss Blagden wrote to Kate Field, “That rebellious individual Emilia has returned to my service” (unpubl. letter in Boston Public Lib.).

^{Note 105 in page 611} A pension of 100 was awarded to “Miss Eliza Murphy and Miss Charlotte Murphy On account of the eminent literary merits of their sister, the late Mrs. Jameson, and their straitened circumstances” (W. M. Colles, Literature and the Pension List [London, 1889], p. 42). Browning refused to subscribe (Letters . . . to Isa Blagden, pp. 32–33).

^{Note 106 in page 611} Matilda M. Hays (1820-?), editor, author, actress, sponsored the subscription for Mrs. Jameson's sisters.