The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti : with some supplementary letters and appendices . our safereturn home. To think that you two now have one home and oneheart—may they be full of peace, love, and happiness. Mamma, Aunt C, and Aunt E., join me in two loves; which twoare the largest couple you will know. . We fully expect () to dine with you on Saturday 23, and re-pitch our tents at home. My Aunts mean to return to BloomsburySq. the same day. . I have heard again from Mr. Macmillan, and find he is treatingwith Mr. Arthur Hughes about illustrating my Christmas story; soof cour
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti : with some supplementary letters and appendices . our safereturn home. To think that you two now have one home and oneheart—may they be full of peace, love, and happiness. Mamma, Aunt C, and Aunt E., join me in two loves; which twoare the largest couple you will know. . We fully expect () to dine with you on Saturday 23, and re-pitch our tents at home. My Aunts mean to return to BloomsburySq. the same day. . I have heard again from Mr. Macmillan, and find he is treatingwith Mr. Arthur Hughes about illustrating my Christmas story; soof course this is accepted, to my great contentment. He asked meabout illustrators, and I proposed—or rather I expressed my ownpreference for—A. H.: wherefore I am pleased. We are particularly well lodged here as to situation, in nice roomsand with nice people. Poor Mamma has caught cold I know nothow, but still I hope this will not neutralize the good alreadyachieved : I myself thrive, and show mitigated looks to boot. I hopeAnnus Domini has met with a fraternal welcome at your hands and. 1K(»m Ieniu, Drawings i;v Ciirisiina in the Zoological Gardens, London, c. 1862. (To /ace />. 45. i874—TO DANTE ROSSETTI 45 heart. Various more or less pleasant mentions have been made ofit, particularly one which has gratified me in a note of acceptancefrom Dr. Littledale. I need not hope you have enjoyed this trip. To Dante Rossetti, Kelmscott. [If I remember right, this proposed visit of our mother andChristina to Kelmscott did not take effect. My wife and I werethere for a few days, and my brother began a well-known head of mywife in coloured chalks; finished soon afterwards when he had re-settled in London.] 56 EUSTON SQUARE, LONDON, 22 June [1874]. Mv DEAR Gabriel, Your letters always cheer our Mother, as a country rosecheers a Londoner, or the first Spring day overtakes all the a very warm love she acknowledges the pleasure of your in-vitation (in
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