ENPages That Mention Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894
Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his meeting with Baillie's cousin, Mrs. Cunliffe; his impending trip to Wales; his visit to the Junior Water Colours and the British Institution; etc.
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We have four Miss Storys staying in the house, girls from Reading. This is a great advantage - but not to reading.
I have been reading Sophocles with Herr mann's notes which are laborious beyond everything, but a great clue to scholarship I find. I am in misery about my first.
I have written a lot of my Pulate. I am thinking of a Judas, but such a subject is rather beyond me at present. I have added several stanzas to Floris in Italy but it gets on very slowly. I have nearly finished an answer to Miss Rossetti's Convent Threshold, to be called A Voice from the World, or something like that, with which I am present in the fatal condition of satisfaction. I have written three religious poems which however you would not at all enter into, they
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think me too egotistical in speaking thus at length and thus freely ab out myself and my hopes. I have now a more rational hope than be fore of doing something - in poetry and painting. About the first I have said all there is to say in a letter; about the latter I have no more room to speak, but when next I see you I have great things to tell you. I have been introduced to Miss and Miss Christina Rossetti. I met them and Holman Hunt and George Mac Donald and Peter Cunningham and Jenny Lind at the Gurneys'.
Hardy wishes you would look sharp and answer his letter, and sends his love.
Believe me, my dear friend, yours affectionately, Gerard M. Hopkins.
P.S. "Nothing so true as what you once let fall", life is a preparation for Mods.