5313. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 3.

16. Cheyne Walk

Chelsea

5 Jan. 1863 [sic, for 1864] [1]

My dear Browning

I am making it Tuesday– This day week—instead of Monday—for my mother & sisters to come here. [2] I hope as it gives you yet another days notice, I shall be all the likelier to see you that Evening–

With love, yours,

D G Rossetti

Address: Robert Browning Esq / 19 Warwick Crescent / Harrow Road / Bayswater.

Publication: Rossetti, 3, 103.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Correct year provided by postmark.

2. Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori, 1800–86) and her two daughters, Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–76) and Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–94). Others expected were William Michael Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and his wife, Georgiana (née Macdonald). See SD2668.

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