# Præraphaelite diaries and letters

Author: Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 [Editor]; Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882; Rossetti, Gabriele, 1783-1854

Genre: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78022

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pr%C3%A6raphaelite+diaries+and+letters+Rossetti&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This childish epistle from Dante Gabriel would have little or no claim to appear here, were it not for the fact (as noted in a few accompanying words by his mother) that it is “the second letter of his writing--the first was to his Grandmother.” It is written on lines, in a large text-hand--childish, of course, but correctly formed. Dante Rossetti must have been backward rather than otherwise--or one might say lazy--at letter-writing, for at this date he was close upon seven years of age. I add a second childish letter, of nearly similar date. Margaret Polidori, his eldest maternal aunt, was at this date a governess in Leicestershire; Eliza Polidori, a younger aunt, addressed in the secon...

## Chapters

- [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/31/index.md)
- [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/5/index.md)
- [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/29/index.md)
- [LETTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/8/index.md)
- [LETTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/17/index.md)
- [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/3/index.md)
- [LETTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/25/index.md)
- [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/28/index.md)
- [LETTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/21/index.md)
- [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/27/index.md)
- [LETTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/6/index.md)
- [LETTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/16/index.md)
- [LETTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/23/index.md)
- [LETTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/4/index.md)
- [LETTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/18/index.md)
- [LETTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/24/index.md)
- [LETTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/22/index.md)
- [LETTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/26/index.md)
- [LETTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/11/index.md)
- [LETTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/1/index.md)
- [LETTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/20/index.md)
- [LETTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/12/index.md)
- [LETTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/19/index.md)
- [LETTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/9/index.md)
- [LETTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/15/index.md)
- [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/2/index.md)
- [LETTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/30/index.md)
- [LETTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/13/index.md)
- [LETTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/10/index.md)
- [LETTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pr-raphaelite-diaries-and-letters-78022/chapters/14/index.md)