Chapter XX: Letter XIX: To Madox Brown, Hampstead

“Lizzy” is Miss Siddal. Her portrait, water-colour, is the one reproduced in the _Family Letters_ of my brother. She painted eventually more than one water-colour from Tennyson, but not any that was exhibited, or offered for exhibition, in the R.A.

[Chatham Place, London.
25 August 1853.]

My dear Brown,

Some cad wrote to me from Highgate the other day to inquire after
your respectability. In my answer, by some exercise of ingenuity,
I avoided the mention of Coldbath Fields, Botany Bay, and other
localities equally inseparable from your career.

Lizzy has made a perfect wonder of her portrait, which is nearly
done, and which I think we shall send to the Winter Exhibition.
She has been very ill though lately.

Pray remember me most kindly at home, and believe me

Your friend,
D. G. R.

Liz is going to begin a picture at once for the R.A., from
Tennyson, I believe.