SD1523. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Bell Scott

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 276 (in part).

17 Newman Street

Friday, 7th Nov. [1851]

My dear Scott,

The last chance and hope of being able to see you again this year …

I wonder you are not delighted with Sordello—a phoenix of a book in my estimation. As you, however, are determined to resist the mesmeric influence of the bard, and stoutly refuse to be “clairvoyant,” I shall fall back upon Mrs. Scott’s wholesome faith & enthusiasm, with every confidence in a more fortunate result. …

Publication: Rossetti, 1, 187–189.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

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