LETTER XXII.

DANTE ROSSETTI TO MADOX BROWN, HAMPSTEAD.

My brother’s parody on Tennyson’s _Kraken_ is published in my Memoir of him.

[Chatham Place, London. 7 November 1853.]

My dear Brown,

... I have had some news of Woolner (_i.e._, a letter to his father which was shown me). He and B[ernhard] Smith were seven months at the diggings (full accounts of which I have seen in letters from Bernhard Smith to his brother). Their work seems to have been something awful, and their result was the loss of £30 apiece, as they each made £50 and spent £80. Bernhard Smith went after this to his brother’s farm and W[oolner] to Melbourne to try Art. Here he seems to be getting on well. He has done several medallions at £25 each--one of the Governor--and there seems to be a good prospect of his getting a statue of the Queen to do for Melbourne, in which case he will be back again next summer. He sent two Australian papers in which he is spoken of as quite a great fact, and a leading article given to him and the projected statue. I thought I would write to you all this, not knowing when I may see you, and now it suddenly strikes me that it was all jawed over that night at Deverell’s.

I have made an admirable parody on Tennyson’s sonnet, _The Kraken_, which I enclose with the original for your ecstatic perusal.

Yours, D. G. R.