Rossetti, his Family Letters," i.

115, gives the summer of 1850 as the date of his brother's letter; and says, no doubt correctly, that Browning was in Venice at the time.

Mr Sharp prints a letter of Browning's on his early acquaintance with Rossetti, and on the incident recorded above.

I may here note that "Richmond," appended, with a date, to _Pauline_, was a fancy or a blind; Browning never resided at Richmond.].