SD2551. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 343 (in part).

[London]

Monday [20 January 1862]

Dear Miss Heaton

Pardon my delay in writing but have been very busy. …

I would be happy to lend you anything of my own for the 17th but the only two things I possess are a small water colour portrait of Robert Browning and a pen & ink drawing of a subject from the Morte d’Arthur Romance. These I will send if you think their attractiveness worth the while, & will be obliged by your kindly returning them, as you promise, on the following day—but perhaps you will not think them of enough general interest—though indeed a portrait of Browning ought to be looked at eagerly by everyone. …

Publication: Rossetti, 2, 451–452.

Manuscript: Yale Center for British Art.

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