SD1911. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 268–269 (in part).

[London]

Thursday [6 March 1856]

Dear Allingham

I’ve been putting off writing to you in hopes of doing so at some length …

Now something else. Dalziel (very good-naturedly considering) called here the other day to enlist me for an illustrated selection of Poets which he has the getting up of, it being edited by Revd. Wilmott. That venerable parson had not it seems included Browning, for whose introduction I made an immediate stand & said in that case I would illustrate him. I think it will probably be done, & I shall propose (I fancy as yet) Count Gismond—“Say, hast thou lied?”—which I designed some years ago. But I should also like to do one from you, if anything illustratable of yours is included & you are not pre-engaged. Something of yours, I gather from D., was to be in. Would you tell me what? i.e. if you know. I told him I shouldn’t be able to do them for several months, as the Tennyson ones still hang on my hands; but he seemed to say that would do. I am to write to him about subject from Browning, so would you let me also hear of yours at once, if you can? …

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 100–102.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

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