Chapter X: Letter IX: To Margaret Polidori

My brother was now engaged in moving into No. 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars Bridge--the house in which he remained up to March 1862. It was demolished several years ago.

[38 Arlington Street, Camden Town.]
16 November 1852.

My dear Aunt Margaret,

Many thanks for your kind present, which surprised me here half
an hour ago. Nothing could possibly have been more useful to me
in moving, as I had no lamp but one whose dilapidated condition
only promised to make darkness visible. I shall now bear you in
grateful recollection, not only when I look at the lamp, but when
the lamp enables me to look at anything else.

My things will be moved to-morrow, and I hope within a few days
to be comfortably settled; meanwhile I remain,

My dear Aunt Margaret,
Your affectionate nephew,
D. G. ROSSETTI.