3756. EBB to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 165.

[Paris]

[Postmark: 28 March 1856]

Dear Mr Rossetti, do think about your portrait of my husband– [1] It is so characteristically like him & therefore worthy of you, that I can’t but think you might condescend to trust it to the Exhibition. [2]

EBB–

Address, in RB’s hand: Angleterre. / Gabriel Dante Rossetti Esq. / 14 Chatham Place, / Blackfriars Bridge, / London.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Scripps College.

1. Rossetti’s water-colour portrait of RB dated “October 1855” (see letter 3641, note 1).

2. Rossetti gives his reason for not doing so in letter 3758.

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