A HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH SKETCHES FROM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI TO FREDERIC J SHIELDS

The letter reading as follows:

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 ....is neither named or dated. 
What you tell me of Lady Mount Temple's liking my book pleased me as you may suppose.
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.) has been very ill but was convalescent when last we heard of him? My mother a I unite in hoping that you also are much better and that letters from Mrs Shields (or still more welcome, her presence) appease you that she has also rallied. Lucy with two of the little girls is still, I believe, at Manchester. 
Always truly yours
Christina G. Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.

Frederic James Shields (14 March 1833 – 26 February 1911) was a British artist, illustrator, and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.

Kerrison Preston Esq. (1884-1974) practised as a solicitor in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset) from 1909 to 1949. He was a noted connoisseur with a collection including Pre-Raphaelite works by Rossetti and Burne-Jones, which were saved for the nation by Duke’s in 2007 and now form part of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.