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30 Torrington Square -- W.C. Friday

Dear Mr. Shields I have copied from the printed article jealously preserved by my Mother, the sheet I send you and of course do not want back. I think the original came out in a Manchester paper, but our scrap is neither named nor dated.

What you tell me of Lady Mount Temple's liking my book pleases me as you may suppose.

[page 2] Do you know that Mr. Brown came up early this week with his fine "Wycliff" picture to stay a few days at William's? and that our dear Mr. Scott (W.B.) hs ben very ill but was convalescent when last we heard of him? My Mother and I write in hoping that you also are much better and that letters from Mrs. Shields (or still more welcome, her presence) assure you that she also has rallied. Lucy

[page three] with two of the little girls is still, I believe, at Manchester.

Always truly yours, Christina G. Rossetti

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consists of four ink sketches of a kneeling figure with a phrase scribbled in the lower right corner "what such penitence is meaning-"(?)