You will believe that I received with pride and warm feeling the love which you sent me in a letter to Gilchrist, now published in the Athenaeum; and that I reciprocate your love with reverential affection.
That movement for a few English people to express in a practical form the feeling which they entertain towards you has not as yet taken any extended development—nothing I believe having been done outside a few general paragraphs in journals. Gilchrist will now be taking steps in a more detailed and direct way: from him and his mother you will no doubt hear many particulars from time to time.
- 1. 3 Post-Office orders which will be made good to you upon your signing them, and presenting them at Camden—and
- 2. A Brank-draft which, as I am advised, you can get cashed in Camden or Philadelphia.
I enclose a little list of names, and remain, like so many others who have hearts to feel and ears to hear,
Your lifelong debtor, W. M. Rossetti