The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti : with some supplementary letters and appendices . to work which could not easily be mended. He choseto misconstrue this phrase, and represented Christina, in a state ofsenseless excitement, destroying household furniture with a hammer,bank-notes in a firegrate, &c. The caricature was preserved byChristina, and is still extant—now in the hands of my daughterOlivia Agresti.—The Henrietta here mentioned was HenriettaPolydore, daughter of our uncle; she was at this date aged sixteenor thereabouts, and was consumptive. She died in the United States
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti : with some supplementary letters and appendices . to work which could not easily be mended. He choseto misconstrue this phrase, and represented Christina, in a state ofsenseless excitement, destroying household furniture with a hammer,bank-notes in a firegrate, &c. The caricature was preserved byChristina, and is still extant—now in the hands of my daughterOlivia Agresti.—The Henrietta here mentioned was HenriettaPolydore, daughter of our uncle; she was at this date aged sixteenor thereabouts, and was consumptive. She died in the United Statestowards the age of twenty-eight.—By Mac here and elsewhereChristina meant her publisher Alexander Macmillan, with whom shewas always on pleasant terms.] Si high ST., HASTINGS. {^December 1864.] My dear Gabriel, Such is my attitude vis-iVvis of the historic record of myfinished work. The stolid equanimity of the elephant under the lossof his trunk is perhaps my favourite point: though Henrietta justlydirected my admiration to the rueful eye which the chip directs tothe old block (head).. 00 <^ 6 ^ S ^^ S i866—TO WILLIAM ROSSETTI 29 A Miss Smith has asked and obtained Macs leave to melodizeone of my things, I know not which. The other day a Rev. wrote begging my permission for him to reprint House toHome, in a collection he is preparing to promote a charitable object:after consulting Mac I consented. Jean Ingelow is in his list ofcontributors; and Dean Alford, not that I rate him very highpoetically. Uncle Henry and Henrietta join in love. To William Rossettl [This letter is very roughly written in pencil. My recollectionconcerning it is not exact. Christina was somewhere away fromhome, but I think not far off nor for long. It is clear that she hadby this time, on grounds of religious faith, declined the offer ofmarriage made by Charles Bagot Cayley: also that I had writtenmaking some proposal which she thought liberal—I presume theproposal (which I certain
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