Keep the head of Raffaelle as long as you please. I am glad that one of
the three pictures at all events is worth something. I anticipated that
Morton's friend would spoil them in the carriage: friends always do. Keep
them all, like my other pictures, at your house: and make what use of
them you please. The head of Dante is, I suppose, the same as the one L.
Hunt shewed us engraved in a book: a theatrical one, I thought. . . .
Have you been to any auction-rooms? I have forgot all about them: and
can live very well without pictures. I believe one loses all one's
tastes in the country: and one is not the less happy. We have had
glorious weather: new pease and young potatoes--fresh milk (how good!)
and a cool library to sit in of mornings. . . .
_To F. Tennyson_.
BEDFORD, _August_ 16, 1842.