The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with some supplementary letters and appendices . tions. Thiswas not actually done.] 30 TORRINGTON SQUARE, 17 December 1883. My dear William, Having to write, I return Mr. Shieldss letter which I liketruly. It happens I heard from him this morning about the window,and then he expressed himself to me as sympathetically: the meetinghe alludes to I had been told of by my dearest Friend. As to the books, be sure I shall subscribe if that comes to at this moment I think you had better wait, for (not the copyrightsbut) the remainders of
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with some supplementary letters and appendices . tions. Thiswas not actually done.] 30 TORRINGTON SQUARE, 17 December 1883. My dear William, Having to write, I return Mr. Shieldss letter which I liketruly. It happens I heard from him this morning about the window,and then he expressed himself to me as sympathetically: the meetinghe alludes to I had been told of by my dearest Friend. As to the books, be sure I shall subscribe if that comes to at this moment I think you had better wait, for (not the copyrightsbut) the remainders of the translation-editions on sale have beenleft to me, and I suppose Longmans will communicate with mesome day. . You certainly ought to know this now; as, if you write on thesubject of your scheme to Profr. Cayley—evidently, though I havenot been actually told so, the executor—all might get into a con-fusion between you, unless you are aware of this think I have been keeping it to myself of unkind purpose,—but all is what it is, and no other aspect is of much Charles Bagot a Photograph, c. 1866. To face p. 142. 1884—TO WILLIAM ROSSETTI 143 Thankyou for the offered Athenaum, and still more for theaimed-at correction : I am sorry I was the misleader. . A beautiful desk has been left me too, and Arthur Cayley broughtit me himself the other evening. To William Rossetti. [ Not an aquila (eagle): this was a wonted expression of ourfather when he meant to imply that some one was the reverse ofsharp-witted.—Mr. something Ford must have been Mr. OnslowFord: I am not aware that his acquaintanceship with Christinaproceeded any further.—Mr. John Walker, then quite a young man,has written various works in verse and prose under the name ofRoland Thirlmere : he was a strong admirer of Christinas poetry.—Mrs. Isabella Pietrocola-Rossetti was now about to re-marry withMr. Lionel Cole, a connection of Lord Congleton.—The ivory ofa nestling w
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