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THE LETTERS
OF
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
EDITED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ADDITIONS
BY
FREDERIC G. KENYON
WITH PORTRAITS
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME II.
THIRD EDITION
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1898
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME
CHAPTER VII
1851-1852
'Casa Guidi Windows'—Venice—Milan—Paris—London—Winter in Paris—TheCoup d'Etat—Louis Napoleon—Miss Mitford's 'Recollections'—GeorgeSand—Miss Mulock—Summer in England 1
CHAPTER VIII
1852-1855
Return to Florence—Spiritualism—Robert Lytton—Bagni diLucca—Florence—Rome—Florence—The Crimean War—Death of MissMitford 91
CHAPTER IX
1855-1859
Visit to England—Tennyson's 'Maud'—Winter in Paris—Mr. Ruskin—LastVisit to England—'Aurora Leigh'—Death of Mr. Kenyon—Return toFlorence—Carnival—Death of Mr. Barrett—Bagni di Lucca—Illness ofLytton—Paris—Havre—Paris—Florence—Rome 205
CHAPTER X
1859-1860
The Franco-Austrian War—Napoleon andItaly—Villafranca—Florence—Siena—Italian Politics andEngland—Landor—Florence—Rome 305
CHAPTER XI
1860-1861
'Poems before Congress'—Napoleon and Savoy—France, Italy, andEngland—Florence—Death of Mrs. Surtees Cook—Garibaldi—Rome—The'Cornhill Magazine' and Thackeray—Increasing Weakness—Death of Mrs.Browning 363
INDEX 455
Portrait Of Robert Browning, Rome 1854 Frontispiece
Facsimile Of Letter To The Emperor Napoleon to face p. 262
THE LETTERS
OF
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
CHAPTER VII
1851-1852
Since they first settled in Florence the Brownings had made no long ordistant expeditions from their new home. Their summer excursions toVallombrosa, Lucca, or Siena had been of the nature of short holidays,and had not taken them beyond the limits of Tuscany. Now they hadplanned a far wider series of travels, which, beginning with Rome,Naples, Venice, and Milan, should then be extended across the Alps, andcomprehend Brussels, Paris, and ultimately London. This ambitiousprogramme had to be curtailed by the omission of the southern tour toRome and Naples, as well as the digression to Brussels, but the rest ofthe scheme was carried out, and about the beginning of June they leftCasa Guidi for an absen