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SD2224.  William Windus to William Michael Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 366.

[?Liverpool]

9 December 1858

I have read nothing of Mrs. Browning’s except Aurora Leigh but from your outline of the plot of the Romaunt of the Page it bears just sufficient resemblance to Burd Helen to make my picture pass for a bad illustration of it.

Publication: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), p. 103 (in part).

Manuscript: University of British Columbia.

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