SD1808. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 372–373 (in part).

Blackfriars Bridge

Wednesday [21 March 1855]

Dear Allingham

I have been looking at the mangled remains of my drawing again by the light of your friendly letter …

By the bye, I’m delighted at your appreciation of Scott. … Scott is a man something of Browning’s order, as regards his place among poets, though with less range & even much greater incompleteness, but also, on the other hand, quite without affectation ever to be found among his faults, & I think, too, with more of that commonly appreciable sort of melody in his best moments. …

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 27–29.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

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