Supporting Documents

SD2421.  Edith Story to William Michael Rossetti

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 362 (in part).

Palazzo Barberini, Rome

8 December 1860

My Dear Mr. Rossetti,

On our arrival we found Rome quiet as ever, but the streets seemed quite empty. …

The dear Brownings came to Rome soon after we did, and are now comfortably settled in pleasant sunny apartments very near us. Mrs. Browning has been quite ill since she has heard of the death of her sister; she is however slowly recovering the heavy blow, and I think this warm Scirocco weather does her a great deal of good. Mr. Browning is the same dear genial friend; we see him almost every evening.

Text: Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism; Papers 1854 to 1862, ed. William Michael Rossetti (London, 1899), pp. 255–256.

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