Chapter I: 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

W. M. R.