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Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to William Allingham, [1854] Oct. 15.

BIB_ID
305472
Accession number
MA 381.14
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1854] Oct. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 17.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday 15 October" by Rossetti; year from Fredeman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti primarily to William Allingham. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
With a marginal note by Woolner hoping to "meet and have a yarn" and thanking him for "the sweet little poems you sent me 2 1/2 years ago at Plymouth."
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Mentioning that Woolner has returned and that "it is jolly to have him again among us;" reporting that he has rework his design of "The Maids of Elfen Mere" for Allingham's poem of the same title; mentioning that he has been painting out of doors at Chiswick on a "modern picture;" discussing the publication of Allingham's poems; thanking him for suggesting that his own be printed and discussing four lines from one of his sonnets; mentioning Wuthering Heights and asking whether Charlotte Brontë is "half as good."