When you see an advertisement and have an opportunity to apply at Chapman's, do so 'by this sign' enclosed.

I read of you in the papers, stirring up the women.
Write and say how you are, and where you are.
[_Part of this letter is missing._] Your ever very affectionate BA.
I hope you liked the article on the immorality of luncheon-rooms in your high-minded 'Saturday Review.' FOOTNOTES: [62] Prime Minister of Piedmont from 1849-52, and one of the most honourable and patriotic of Italian statesmen.
[63] Subsequently English ambassador at Berlin, and one of the plenipotentiaries at the Berlin Congress of 1878.

Created Lord Ampthill in 1881, and died in 1884.
[64] Now in the possession of Mr.R.Barrett Browning.
[65] The conferences for the arrangement of the final treaty of peace were held at Zurich.
[66] Of Tuscany with Piedmont, which was voted by Tuscany in August.
Modena, Parma, and Romagna did the same, and so made the critical step towards the creation of a united Italy.
[67] It was supposed that Napoleon contemplated constituting Central Italy, or at least Tuscany, into a kingdom for his brother Jerome, and that it was for this reason that the latter had been sent to Florence with a French corps at the beginning of the war.
[68] Napoleon being opposed to the idea of a united Italy, Victor Emmanuel did not consider it wise to accept the proffered crown of Central Italy while a French army was still in the country and the terms of peace were not finally settled.
[69] The new Duke of Tuscany.

He had succeeded to this now very shadowy throne on July 21 of this year.
[70] Not on account of bad riding, be it observed, but of daring and venturesome riding.
[71] Mr.Chorley had dedicated his last novel, _Roccabella_, to Mrs.
Browning.
[72] 'Do you see this ring?
'Tis Rome-work, made to match (By _Castellani's_ imitative craft) Etrurian circlets,' etc.
(_The Ring and the Book_, i.

1-4.) [73] Mrs.Browning is here quoting from her own preface to _Poems before Congress_.
[74] _Poetical Works_, iv.