5397. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 69.

16. Cheyne Walk

Chelsea

8 June 1864

My dear Browning

Many & many thanks for the “Dramatis Personæ” [1] —above all for “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” “A Death in the Desert” & “Caliban upon Setebos,”—all of your most glorious work to my thinking. I am not yet half as intimate as I mean to be with them and all–

Ever truly yours

D G Rossetti

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

Publication: Rossetti, 3, 156.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

1. Rossetti’s presentation copy of Dramatis Personæ is inscribed by RB: “Gabriel Dante Rossetti from his affectionately Robert Browning. May 30, ’64” (see Reconstruction, C296).

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