Præraphaelite diaries and letters

Dante Alighieri · en
My dear Aunt Margaret,
                                           Your affectionate nephew,
                                                     D. G. ROSSETTI.


                               LETTER X.

                      TO MADOX BROWN, HAMPSTEAD.

                                          [38 Arlington Street.]
                                                   22 November 1852.

  My dear Brown,

  My beastly foot has hitherto kept me here, but I shall positively
  go down to Chatham Place to-morrow; if therefore you are inclined
  to do a charitable action, let me earnestly solicit you to find
  your way thither, as the arrangement will otherwise be likely to
  result in mere chaos and catastrophe. I suppose I shall leave
  here early; but, if you go down straight to Blackfriars a little
  later, you will be sure to find me there. This, of course, is
  supposing that you are not at work, in which case pray come if
  possible.

                                                     Yours, D. G. R.


                              LETTER XI.

                      TO MADOX BROWN, HAMPSTEAD.

“Summat on the Dook” means the poem _Wellington’s Funeral_.

                                  14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars.
                                                   29 November 1852.

  My dear Brown,

  Hunt, Millais, Stephens, and Deverell, will be here on Thursday
  evening, not with any reference to exhibition projects, which
  are likely to result, I believe, in exhibiting nothing but our
  usual inconsistency. I absented myself from Hunt’s on Friday, but
  understand that such is the case. I met the fellows at Stephens’
  last night, where I invited them for Thursday, and now write
  to get you; intending also to invite the Seddons, Collins, and
  perhaps Hannay.

  I saw a portrait which Stephens is painting of his father, and
  which is almost as surprising an advance on former productions as
  Seddon’s landscape.

  I should be immensely glad to see you this evening if you can
  call in late after the school. Before, I suppose, is impossible,
  but I am sure to be at home, and can give you half my bed if you
  like. I am getting my rooms a little in order now; yet I fear
  they will scarcely be decent by Thursday, as the window seems an
  endless job.

                                                            D. G. R.

  I have asked the Seddons for to-night.

  P.S.--Do come to-night: to-morrow I am engaged. I have done
  “summat on the Dook.”


                              LETTER XII.

                      TO MADOX BROWN, HAMPSTEAD.

As I have said elsewhere, I incline to think that my brother was
mistaken in supposing that his sketches had been “kicked out”; at
any rate, _some_ water-colours of his were on exhibition.

                                 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars.
                                                  [4 December 1852.]

  My dear Brown,