Transcriber’s Notes: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. [Illustration: (Christina Georgina Rossetti, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)] 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 LONDON HURST AND BLACKETT LIMITED 13 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET 1900 _All Rights reserved_ 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