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SD1469.  William Michael Rossetti to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 309 (in part).

38 Arlington Street

14 January 1851

… The new edition of Mrs. Browning (have you seen it?) contains but little new matter,—and, so far as I have seen, scarcely any alterations in the old. There is a new translation of the Prometheus Bound. I am a regular contributor to the Critic,—the editor sending me a batch of (chiefly nonsense-) verse to review every now and then. I don’t suppose he has received Mrs. Browning: but any notice of it I might send (which I should be inclined to do if I had time) would certainly be inserted. …

Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), pp. 18–20.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

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