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Miss Rossetti had many correspondents among the distinguished artists and literary personages of the day.
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Dr. Polidori was travelling physician to Lord Byron during his tour in Europe in 1816. His diary gives an account of this tour, in which Shelley and many other interesting personages appear.
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Transcriber's NotePunctuation has been normalized.Page106, "unobstrusive" changed to "unobtrusive". (her unobtrusive walking-costume)Page277, "any thing" changed to "anything". (was there anything more ridiculous)Page347, "ne" changed to "net". (2s. 6d. net)Chapter numbers at end of book have been corrected so as to be sequential. (Chapter XXVIII, XXIX, and XXX