BIB_ID
305490
Accession number
MA 381.18
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Wednesday [1855 Mar. 21].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Dating from postmark and Fredeman.
Mourning envelope with postmarks and addressed to "William Allingham Esq / New Ross / Ireland."
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.
Written Blackfriars Bridge on mourning paper.
Mourning envelope with postmarks and addressed to "William Allingham Esq / New Ross / Ireland."
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.
Written Blackfriars Bridge on mourning paper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Regretting the failure of his design (for Allingham's poem "The Maids of Elfen Mere") and planning to make him a small water colour or pen and ink drawing of the subject, noting that "since we cannot hang the engraver, the drawing at any rate should receive no quarter," and discussing ways in which the engraving might be salvaged. Asking him to return Ruskin's letter to Miss Siddal and happily reporting that "Ruskin's interest in her continues unabated, & he is most desirous of benefiting her in any way in his power." Giving an account of the life and suicide of his uncle Polidori.
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