SD1924. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 271 (in part).

[London]

Friday [25 April 1856]

Dear Allingham

Many thanks for your “sunny memory” of me. The photograph interests me as in some degree embodying your whereabouts. …

Being short of news (& time) I enclose 2 or 3 notes of Browning’s as a peace-offering. You ought to see one passage. His portrait by Page is accepted at R.A. but I dare say they’ll gibbet it in some way—& it isn’t good.

I agree partly about Ruskin as far as I’ve read the 4th vol. but there are glorious things of course—Calais Church at beginning is one.

Really, the omissions in Browning’s passage are awful, & the union with Longfellow worse. How I loathe Wishiwasha—of course without reading it. I have not been so happy in loathing anything for a long while—except I think “Leaves of Grass” by that Orson of yours. I should like just to have the writing of a valentine to him in one of the reviews. …

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 118–121.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

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