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PRÆRAPHAELITE DIARIES AND LETTERS
EDITED BY
WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI
I SOME EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 1835-54
II MADOX BROWN’S DIARY ETC 1844-56
III THE P R B JOURNAL KEPT BY W M ROSSETTI 1849-53
ILLUSTRATED
J’ai voulu tout simplement puiser dans l’entière connaissance de la tradition le sentiment raisonné et indépendant de ma propre individualité--GUSTAVE COURBET 1855
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VARIOUS PERSONS BELOVED OR CHERISHED BY ME IN DEATH AS IN LIFE STAND ON RECORD IN THIS BOOK WHICH I DEDICATE TO THE MEMORY OF THEM ALL
W M R
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
SOME EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Introduction 3
LETTERS FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, 1 to 20 6
LETTER FROM GABRIELE ROSSETTI, 21 38
LETTER FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, 22 40
LETTER FROM GABRIELE ROSSETTI, 23 41
LETTERS FROM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, 24 to 26 43
MADOX BROWN--SOME LETTERS, FOLLOWED BY A DIARY Introduction 51
LETTERS 1 to 6 51
DIARY 1847 61
” 1848 79
” 1849 100
” 1850 105
” 1851 107
” 1852 109
” 1853 112
” 1854 113
” 1855 152
” 1856 201
THE P.R.B. JOURNAL, 1849-53 Introduction 205
” 1849 209
” 1850 244
” 1851 292
” 1852-3 305
INDEX 310
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
1. Christina Georgina Rossetti, Profile by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pencil (20 May 1865). A very exact likeness of her at the age of thirty-four Frontispiece
2. The Gravestone of Elizabeth Brown, Madox Brown’s first wife, Highgate Cemetery, designed by him. Print taken from a Drawing which he made in Colour-wash. A Grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Michael Ford Madox Rossetti, who died in infancy in 1883, is now buried in the same Grave To face p. 65
3. Christ Washing Peter’s Feet, by Madox Brown, Pencil-sketch for the Oil-picture now in the National British Gallery. The Picture seems to have been begun towards the winter of 1851, and was exhibited in 1852: this Pencil-drawing is probably the first sketch made to try the composition ” 110
4. Alfred Tennyson reading Maud aloud. Pen-and-ink Sketch by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 27 September 1855. Details as to this matter are given in my Memoir of Dante Rossetti. Mr. and Mrs. Browning, being then for a while at No. 13 Dorset Street, London, invited a few friends to hear Tennyson read Maud, as he had undertaken. Miss Browning, my Brother, and myself, were present, and perhaps one other. My Brother, unobserved by Tennyson, made a pen-and-ink sketch of him, and gave it to Browning. He also made a duplicate of the sketch, which belongs (or used to belong) to Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse. The present version is a triplicate, which he sent to Miss Elizabeth E. Siddal, then in Paris: she had started (I think only a few days before 27 September) for Paris and Nice, for the sake of her health. This triplicate had remained in the possession of the Siddal family until September 1899, when her Brother was so good as to present it to me ” 233
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