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SD2892.  William Michael Rossetti to Algernon Charles Swinburne

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 361 (in part).

Somerset House,

29 April [1867]

Dear Swinburne,

I have to thank you (days ago by rights) for the copy sent me of the Song of Italy: how highly I rate it I need not repeat. …

Old Kirkup wrote me on 23 March: “Remember me with affection to Swinburne. Tell him that I have written to Browning (!) to get the papers of Landor from Forster, & send them to him—about 50 Latin odes, English poems, dialogues, letters, essays, &c.”…

Text: Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (University Park, Penn., 1990), pp. 172–173.

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