SD2719. Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 308 (in part).

16 Cheyne Walk

Chelsea

16 Aug. 1864

My dearest Mother

I received your good old letter, & am very glad to hear of Henrietta’s decided improvement. …

The other day I sent Christina this month’s Fraser which contains a review of her in conjunction with Miss Ingelow, Mrs. Browning & Miss Procter. The palm among living poetesses is given to Christina on the whole. But probably she will be sending it on to you. I do not know who is the writer, though I have some idea it may be a man of the name of Skelton whom I met on one occasion. The article is affected in style but intelligent in criticism, though the author rather lames his own praise of good poetry by winding up the article with an atrociously bad poem of his own (apparently.) …

Publication: Rossetti, 3, 183–184.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

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