The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with some supplementary letters and appendices . Swinburne 7 June J> 125 >» >? 17 November 1884 147 William Michael Rossetti 18 July 1883 128 j> >> 10 August jj • 132 xxu CONTENTS Sophie CayleyProfessor Cayley DATE 7 December i! lAGE138139 APPENDIX 1. Extracts from the Diaries of William Michael Rossetti, 1871-95 207 2. Extracts from a Diary kept by Christina Rossetti on behalf of her Mother, 1881-6 ....... 222 Index of Names ........ 235 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS To face page CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI .... FrontispieceFrom a T
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with some supplementary letters and appendices . Swinburne 7 June J> 125 >» >? 17 November 1884 147 William Michael Rossetti 18 July 1883 128 j> >> 10 August jj • 132 xxu CONTENTS Sophie CayleyProfessor Cayley DATE 7 December i! lAGE138139 APPENDIX 1. Extracts from the Diaries of William Michael Rossetti, 1871-95 207 2. Extracts from a Diary kept by Christina Rossetti on behalf of her Mother, 1881-6 ....... 222 Index of Names ........ 235 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS To face page CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI .... FrontispieceFrom a Tinted Crayon Drawing by Dante Rossetti, 1877. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTlS BIRTH-HOUSE .... I SKETCH BY DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 21 FACSIMILE FROM ROSSETTlS LETTER . . . .22 DANTE, CHRISTINA, FRANCES, AND WILLIAM ROSSETTI . 29 FROM PENCIL DRAWINGS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ... 45 FRANCES M. L. ROSSETTI . .84 CHARLES BAGOT CAYLEY I42 THE GRAVE-CROSS OF DANTE ROSSETTI . . ? . .144 FACSIMILE OF A POEM BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI .... 206 THE HOUSE IN WHICH CHRISTINA ROSSETTI DIED ..., . 222. Christina Georgina Rossettis Birth-house. no Hallam Street, Portland Place; formerly 38 Charlotte Street. Photograph taken in 1908. [To face p. 1. THE FAMILY LETTERS OF CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI To Gabriele Rossetti, Hastings (translation). [This is the earliest letter by Christina extant in the family. Theoriginal is in Italian, and was (as she says) only the second letterwhich she had ever indited in that language, her age at this datebeing twelve and a half. She apologizes for blunders, which aretolerably numerous, but not such as to affect the sense. She musthave written various letters in English before this time, yet by nomeans many.—Mr. Leader was Mr. John Temple Leader, a who lived to a great age, dying near Florence in 1903. Hehad taken of late much interest in Gabriele Rossettis health, whichwas then gravely shattered, and which had driven him to Hastingsfor relief—soon afte
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