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Title: The life and letters of Frederic Shields
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911 Mills, Ernestine Bell, ed
Subjects: Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911
Publisher: London New York (etc.) : Longmans
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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f Miss Carver, Sweet Mary,and Calypso (both purchased by Mr. MConnell), an Angel of the Annunciation, and two or three drawingsfor Punch; the largest of these, however, was not pub-lished until 1875. It must have been somewhat hard for him to decidethe rights and wrongs of the hobble Rossetti now de-scribes ! Mr. Craven was certainly entitled to a little sympathy. 16 Cheyne Walk, 15th Nov. 1871. Dear Shields,—I was very glad, as always, to hearfrom you at such friendly length and to such friendlypurpose. I wish heartily you were here, for a selfishreason as well as for others; for I should take a thoroughpleasure in showing you my large picture, as the onlything (with all its faultiness) in which I ever tried com-pletely to test (by unflinching efforts to get a work on agood scale right in the end) what my powers for the timebeing might be. It is really much better, I know, thananything I have done yet, though I am very far frombeing blind to its shortcomings. I am about immediately
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