3824. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 15.

[London]

Tuesday [Postmark: 29 July 1856]

My dear Browning

Was it its Yankee origin which enabled this ink-eraser to erase itself so viciously from my memory, till just now it twitted conscience from my colourman’s counter? I shall ask your pardon one evening this week. Meanwhile I send the rubber even thus late, lest by any chance you should be still unprovided; only hoping it wont be used to rub out Sordello with. [1]

With kindest remembrance, believe me

affectionately yours

DG Rossetti

Address: Robert Browning Esq / 39 Devonshire Place.

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 130.

Manuscript: Huntington Library.

1. A reference to RB’s revision of Sordello (1840), a project he had announced to James Thomas Fields in letter 3618.

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