SD2511. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Alexander Macmillan

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 310 (in part).

14 Chatham Place/Blackfriars

30th Aug. 1861

My dear Macmillan

I have been trying these two Thursdays to get down to you but something has prevented me each time, so now I will e’en write instead trusting nevertheless to see you soon.

My sister entrusted to me a volume of MS. poetry, to be delivered into your hands, and accordingly I now send it by Book Post. She has selected with due consideration all the pieces from her stock which seemed most available, and I think you will agree with me that the collection has great beauty. That of course is very far from being the only question as regards success with the public, but now, since the great loss of Mrs. Browning, the world may perhaps be looking out for the new poetess; and though my sister may not yet come near the great dead (as to extent of power), I must say she seems equally in advance of the living. …

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 399.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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