3787. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 221.

[London]

24 May 1856

Offered for sale by Quaritch, Catalogue 380, December 1923, item 161. 2 pp., 8vo. Rossetti refers to RB’s intended return to London: “You’ll be pleased I think with the R.A. Ex. in spite of A Cad-emician & Ass-ociate acts of commission & omission. [1] It is full of Pre-raphaelite work.”

1. Earlier in this letter Rossetti had doubtless informed RB that the portrait by Page had been rejected by the Royal Academy; see RB’s reply in letter 3790 and see also letter 3765, note 1.

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