April 20 1883

My Dear Cotten,

I return the proof of my sonnet, [which?] when i see it in print seems hardly worth publishing. If you do publish it, please let the alterations I have marked upon the proof be attached too. I do not know who it is (the printer presumably) who alters my way of marking quatrains and tercets (the right legitimate Italian way) to the clumsy and bewildering system adopted by Rossetti. This I detest.

Believe me ever yours,

John Addington Symonds