. . . Do you know that I wanted you to come down by the railroad and see
me here: where there is nothing else to be seen but myself: which would
have been a comfort to you. I have been staying here three weeks alone,
smoking with farmers, looking at their lands, and taking long walks
alone: during which (as well as when I was in Ireland) I made such
sketches as will make you throw down your brush in despair. I wish you
would ask at Molteno's or Colnaghi's for a new Lithographic print of a
head of Dante, after a fresco by Giotto, lately discovered in some chapel
{90b} at Florence. It is the most wonderful head that ever was
seen--Dante at about twenty-seven years old: rather younger. The
Edgeworths had a print in Ireland: got by great interest in Florence
before the legitimate publication: but they told me it was to be abroad
in September. If you can get me a copy, pray do.
_To F. Tennyson_.
Imo piano. No. o. Strada del Obelisco.
NASEBY. [_Oct_. 1841.]