SD2549. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Charles Eliot Norton

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 342 (in part).

14 Chatham Place

Blackfriars

9th January 1862

My dear Norton,

Apologies for long silence and for other remissness between friends are grenerally matters in some degree of compliment, and chiefly at any rate of friendly premura. …

I have lately had two visits from dear glorious Browning, who though now settled in England, has hardly seen anyone as yet since his bereavement, so that I may think it no small honour that he should already have been twice seated opposite the portrait of him which is still almost the only ornament of my studio walls. Underneath it, however, on the mantelpiece, is now a cast from life of the face of Keats, which you cannot have seen. I met with it by accident, and got Munro (whom I think you know) to take a mould of it. So, if you like to have a cast I believe one is still to be got through him. He is now in Italy (on his wedding trip) but I will see about it on his return if you like. The only expense would be that of casting & carriage. I procured one for Browning. …

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 438–444.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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