SD1473. William Michael Rossetti to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 266 (in part).

38 Arlington Street,

21 March 1851

Dear Allingham,

I am sending you the Fable for Critics and a volume [con]taining two of Darley’s Tragedies. …

Your experience of the Critic will not, I suspect, be very favouring. There was a pitiful review of Mrs. Browning a month or so ago, the last master touch to whose “despicableness” is given by its being by a slavish prig from the Spectator. …

Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), pp. 20–22.

Manuscript: University of Illinois.

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