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The blessed damozel : autograph manuscript here entitled "The Blessed Damsel", signed "DGR", 1847 [i.e., after 1856].

BIB_ID
136517
Accession number
MA 1051
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1847 [i.e., after 1856].
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.6 cm
Notes
Although it is dated 1847, this is evidently a fair copy written out by Rossetti some time after 1856 (this according to Sydney Cockerell).
Manuscript consists of 20 verses of 6 lines each, written upon 1 long sheet of blue paper.
This is the only known manuscript of any form of the poem.
Provenance
From the library of the Marchesa Peruzzi (Edith Story) of Rome.