Letter from Dante Rossetti, London, to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1870 April 24 [validate sophie and alice boyd] : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing to share that he is enjoying the glorious weather, but is beginning to have a conviction that he should go home and work; wondering when this feeling will force him to obey it; sharing that he is not totally idle or businesslike, and is making a very careful drawing of Mrs. Morris which will be worth money if he choose to sell it; sharing that he regrettably likes to keep his best studies; sharing that his drawing of Sophie Burgess sold, so he has not been totally at a standstill; describing how when he finishes Stillman's portrait he will give him a nimbus and call him his Redeemer; apologizing that he does not know the answer to her inquiry; describing how he has been sad to see moles lying around murdered; sharing that he has wanted to get a large glass case to keep them in.