in a certain sense, letters read better if given without the omission of even unimportant matter; but, apart from my reluctance to include what is really trivial, I must, in such a compilation as the present, economize my space.
In various instances I have had to consult the writers of letters, or the representatives of the writers. Ready permission for publishing has been accorded, and for this I tender my thanks.
London, June 1900.
It may serve the reader's convenience if I here give a slight account of some leading contents of this volume.
Year 1862.—The death of Mrs Dante Rossetti. The removal of Dante Rossetti from Chatham Place to Lincoln's Inn Fields, and to No. 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. William Blake, and Alexander Gilchrist's Life of him. My trip to Italy with William Bell Scott. Froude in his editorial connexion with Fraser's Magazine, These matters are treated of in letters from Scott, Rossetti, Mrs Gilchrist, Frederick Tatham, John Linnell Junr., and Froude, and in my Diary, etc. See especially Nos. 1, 2, 7, 15, 16, 10, 14.
Year 1863.—Blake and Gilchrist (as above). My Brother's trip with me in Belgium. These matters are treated of in a letter from William Haines and in my Diary, etc. See especially Nos. 23, 30.
Year 1864.—Dante Rossetti's hobby for collecting blue china. His relations with Mr Dunlop as a proposing purchaser of his pictures. His picture entitled Found. Christina Rossetti's suggested new volume of poems and her poem The Prince's Progress. W. J. Stillman's position as United States Consul in Rome. My trip to Venice, Bergamo, etc. The Exhibition of Madox Brown's pictures and designs. These matters are treated of in letters from Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Stillman, and in
