Poems, by V.' (1840).
[32] This portrait is now in the possession of Mr.R.B.Browning at Venice.
[33] _I.e._ 'grandfather,' a name by which Mr.Browning, senior, is frequently referred to in these letters.
[34] 'Hush, hush!' [35] For the subsequent fate of this picture, see note on p.

148, above.
[Transcriber's note: Reference is to Footnote [30].] [36] To Mr.Barrett.
[37] This letter is written in very faint ink.
[38] The news of Inkerman had come only a few days before.
[39] Mrs.Browning's 'Song for the Ragged Schools of London' (_Poetical Works_, iv.

270) and her husband's 'The Twins' were printed together as a small pamphlet for sale at Miss Arabella Barrett's bazaar.

Mrs.
Browning's poem had been written before they left Rome.
[40] The horrors of the Crimean winter were now becoming known, which fully accounts for this outburst.
[41] The death of Mrs.Jameson's husband in 1854 had left her in very straitened circumstances, which were ultimately relieved, in part, by a subscription among her friends and the admirers of her works.
[42] Dr.Braun's _Ruins and Museums of Rome_ (1854).
[43] The late Lord Leighton, P.R.A.
[44] The picture of Cimabue's Madonna carried in procession through the streets of Florence.

It was exhibited in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1855, and was bought by the Queen.
[45] In 1852..