BIB_ID
305579
Accession number
MA 381.29
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Thursday [1856 Mar. 6].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Detailed 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
Thanking him for a volume of Aubrey de Vere; mentioning that he has received three parcels for Allingham and asking what he should do with them; reporting that Dalziel asked him to participate in illustrating a selection of poetry and that he agreed to do so upon learning that Browning was to be included; reporting that he is working on a large water colour of Dante's vision of Beatrice dead.
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