[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.