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SD2642. Bryan Waller Procter to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 359.

32 Weymouth Street

Portland Place W

1st June 1863

Dear Sir

My wife insists on sending you some of my extinct verses. I am afraid that some of them are so extinct, that they have not even their Ghosts to recommend them. I believe my only excuse for consenting to your being troubled with the book, is that I have a proper respect for your great Italian poet (whom you so well illuminate) & for your friend Browning, for whom I have a great Love.

Yours sincerely

B. W. Procter.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Kentucky.

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