
I thank you very much for your letter received this
morning. Its frank and pleasant tone makes me regret even more than I should
otherwise have done, to feel myself obliged to say at once that I do not see my way
to bringing out a complete edition of your poems in England. I admire them so very much
myself that I should much like to do it but there are certain pieces (among those
which I admire the most) which would not go down in England, and it certainly would
not be worth while to publish it again in a mutilated form, nor of course would you
wish it. W. M. Rossetti is a great admirer of your poems and a
man by no means squeamish yet you see he did not venture to publish them without
alteration in England. I think he was wrong: they should have been published
complete & with your sanction or let alone. May I keep the volume you send me?
if so I will remit you the price for I have tried in vain to get a complete edition
through Trübners.

