4200. William Michael Rossetti to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 145–146.

London

30 June / 58.

Dear Browning

Will you allow me the pleasure of introducing to you by this note my most valued friend Mr Bell Scott [1] of Edinburgh & Newcastle, who has done things not a little notable both in poetry & painting, & whom I think few people above a certain mark can become acquainted with without loving. [2]

Very truly & respectfully yours,

W. M. Rossetti.

Address: Robert Browning Esq. / Casa Guidi / Florence.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. William Bell Scott (1812–92); see letter 2444, note 9.

2. Some three months later, Scott writes to Rossetti: “The Brownings were gone to Paris, so I could only leave your note with my card” (SD2202).

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