Item 56 - Letter from Christina Rossetti to Henry Sidgwick

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Add. MS c/95/56

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Letter from Christina Rossetti to Henry Sidgwick

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  • 23 May 1890 (Creation)

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Informs him that at one time Mr Bryant, 'by his own admission, was in some degree over-indulgent in drink'. Believes that his alcoholism 'is a fault of the past', but admits that she has not seen him for a considerable period. Thinks that it had been about eight years previously that she first heard from him, having been vouched for to her 'by a common acquaintance [Hall Caine]'. Since that date she knows of his having been three times in the Holbourn Infirmary at Hampstead and twice in the All Saints Convalescent Hospital at Eastbourne.

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      Transcription available, The Letters of Christina Rossetti, ed. Antony H. Harrison (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1997–2004); letter 1729; digital version available (with subscription) here, https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/crossetti/display.xqy?letter=L1729&qs=Sidgwick&qm=and&author=&recipient=

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