5663. RB to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 23.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Nov: 24. ’65.

My dear Rossetti,

I shall never get to see you—(I will, for all that!)—so I must write. Thank you always & for everything: whatever you do about the quadracci [1] will be the best for me. The Frame maker’s bill don’t come, but may, & shall be promptly met when come it does. If Mr Howell chooses to call any morning before 2. I am generally at home, and will have great pleasure in seeing him. But ’tis your pictures I want to see, and more than all yourself—as I began by saying.

Ever affectionately yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of British Columbia.

1. “Poor pictures.” See letter 5657.

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