BIB_ID
305564
Accession number
MA 381.27
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Tuesday [1855 Aug. 21].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Dating 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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Expressing surprise that Allingham had not heard about Millais's marriage [to Effie Gray], noting that "it was in the papers -- the Leader slipped it in somehow among the Deaths!" Mentioning a "stupid enough notices of The Music Master &c., in the Athenaeum;" asking for his opinion of Tennyson's Maud, noting that although "much of it is lovely" he is "disappointed in it" and critiquing the poem. With a postscript noting that he has re-opened the letter to enclose (not present and not identified) a "little excitement."
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