Title: The English Circle
Creators: Walt Whitman, Unknown
Date: Undated
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03424
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
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The English
Circle
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very grand " undemonstrative
F Maddox Brown 37 Fitzroy sq—
in last Scribner—or one before—see sketch of Brown, with portrait
has family—wife, son, & two daughters
Rossetti, W.M—lives with 2 sisters & mother near by
Dante Gabriel—worldly pros perous—has a house on Thame
Wm Morris—keeps how Mrs. Morris—beautiful
Swinburne comes— O'Shaughnessy—(protege of Bulwer
writes in old style—
nobl looking fellow—gothic —2d place at Dean Trench's —aristocratic place —breakfast at 12
Browning is the liveliest little man you ever saw in your life not so very small either
picture in Browning's room —sketched by D.G. Rossetti
Fred. Locker, (very intimate friend of Tennyson) comes 50 years old—solid "Locker's Lyrics"—
Lady Hardy wife of Sir Thos. Hardy
Karl Blind —his daughter
Misrs. Liynn Linton "Saturday Review" —perhaps 150 or 200 people Lots of Editors
Ford Maddox Brown 37 Fitzroy Sq. W. London Eng
Swinburne Henley on Thames
331 55th st
NIAGARA FALLS, N Y Sunday, .... 18.....