SD1666. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Bell Scott

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 371 (in part).

London– 14 Chatham Place

Tuesday– [19 July 1853]

My dear Scott

I returned here on Friday night after a week’s walking in Warwickshire. …

I think the “Saint Margaret” is full of beauties. My only objection to the lines of “burden” would be that they immediately put me in mind of a thing by Mrs. Browning called “The Brown Rosary,” which however I dare say is unknown or at least unfamiliar to you. … I should take away the expression “loved ones” as that is quite decidedly “Barrett-Browningian” & I think feminine in the abstract. …

Publication: Rossetti, 1, 276–278.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

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