Stuk 56 - Letter from Christina Rossetti to Henry Sidgwick

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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.

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=