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Title: The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with some supplementary letters and appendices
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919
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Publisher: London : Brown, Langham
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ite an imperial something in the second which hasa stately and splendid sound. I hope I am not making any mistakein my judgment: but our dearest mother has much to brighten andendear to her the approaching immortality, even beyond those yethigher and more blessed aspects of it which we all have in common.Still, I most keenly appreciate the tenderness which makes youdebate such a point at such a sacrifice. To Olivia Rossetti (Agresti). (In April 1880 Olivia was aged about four years and a half. Shehad asked to have a copy of the sonnet which Christina had writtenfor her own mothers eightieth birthday: this is the reply, coveringinstead a copy of the verses named Golden Glories?^ 30 TORRINGTON SQUARE, W.C 27 April (1880). My dear Olive, I find dearest Grandmamma sets so high a value on herprivate and personal sonnet that I am not to make a copy of it evenfor you! But I hope you will like quite as well the little piece Ienclose, which has never been printed either: so for the present you
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Frances M. L. Rossetti.From an Oil Portrait by Dante Rossetti, c. 1865. ( To face p. 84. i88o—TO DANTE ROSSETTI 85 have it all to yourself. And, if at some future day a golden glory of art or of poetry should alight on your head of golden tips, then(if you are at all like old auntie) you will find that almost if not quiteits brightest point is that it kindles a light of pleasure in your ownMothers eyes. To whom please give my love, and to Arthur and Helen, and lastbut not least to dear Papa. To Dante Rossetti. (The ballad here referred to is The White Ship. The incident ofthe boy in mourning-garb who announces to Henry I the death ofhis son and daughter was (I think) found by Dante Gabriel inAugustin Thierrys history.—The sycomore was used for thepicture The Daydream, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.) 30 TORRINGTON SQUARE, W.C. (?May 1880.) My dear Gabriel, Mamma, with love, takes your loving advice and does notherself write, but is quite glad I should write and express for

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