An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter from Christina Georgina Rossetti who was a British Poet. Frances Catherine 'Kitty' Howell (d. 1888); wife and cousin of Charles Augustus Howell (1840-1890) infamous artist's agent and rogue.Autograph Letter signed to Kate "Kitty" Howell, 3pp., 8vo, 56 Euston Square, [London], n.d., [c. 1870], "Have you thought me ungrateful? And yet I assure they are loving thanks which Mamma and I offer for such lovely flowers, appetizing eggs, and fragrant herbs, and delicious jams. Your kind gift arrived on the very day of my return from Hampstead. Now again I suppose I shall soon leave town, as my doctor prescribes; but we have not yet fixed on a locality. My Mother joins me in cordial remembrances to Mr. Howell". Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 –1894 was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Light foxing/age toning. Gum marks to rear and middle edge.