SD1937. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Coventry Patmore
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 243-244 (in part).
[London]
Tuesday [July 1856]
My dear Patmore
I remembered a day or two after, to my very great vexation, that my appointment with you, to meet the Brownings, had entirely slipped out of my head at the right time, by some strange accident. I suppose this was caused by my having several engagements that week, among which this one got forgotten—being the one which would have pleased me best to keep. I might apologize, had not I been so entirely the loser. …
Publication: Rossetti, 2, 129.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.
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