Letter from Dante Rossetti, London, to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1871? : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing how his brushes have been drying too fast; stating that her friend should not get her hopes up; sharing that he will be glad to see her on Sunday after not being able to meet for ages; sharing that the has not left town since last spring; noting that he has finished his big picture, but will not show it until he has the frame and has done the final glazings; sharing that he presently has no work to show; describing how he has tried to talk to Glottenham lately, but cannot get an apartment there, possibly due to past difficulties; describing how he has taken a place to live jointly with Morris in Oxfordshire; updating her on the pottery bears, which are allegedly on their way to him.