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Show i Uliilo lUliid liHslhsii l:o.v.,i (ll. j Christina Iiosselti. tho sister of (hp 'poet.iii a lovely, white haired woman now. ,she lives in Torriugtou souare, ijuitointhut ipiarter vliere the Americans Ameri-cans find comfortable lodging houses. Mis8Ro-et!i has been very charitable; intact her charities have exceeded her income to such an extent that, she is 111 comparative poverty now. Sho has been frightfully imposed upou from time to time. I have picked up a number of her letters wri; ten to a certain impostor in London, who, pretending to want, wheedled whee-dled this kindly lady out of many a pound. The letters of tho amiablo woman, wom-an, inclosing money to relieve the wretched beggar's alleged wants, aro marvels of pathos, for she speaks of her own poverty. It is hariUto conceive how any man could have the heart to prey nxu so noblo and so unsuspecting a creature. A great many years ago the youthful poems of Miss liossetti were published privately, ami copies of the little book aro now in great demand at $o5 apiece. London Cor. Chicago New. |