[27] Hardly a successful horoscope of the future Ambassador at Paris and Viceroy of India.
[28] Afterwards wife of Signor Carlo Botta, an Italian man of letters, with whom she returned to America and lived in New York.
[29] This refers to the death of the infant child of the Storys, with whom Mr. and Mrs. Browning were on intimate terms of friendship, as the previous letters show.
[30] According to Mr. R.B. Browning, this is practically what has happened with Page's portrait of Robert Browning (now in Venice). The surface has become thick and waxy, and the portrait has almost disappeared.
[31] Author of 'IX. 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.
[36] To Mr. Barrett.