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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Bath, to William Allingham, [1856 Dec. 18].

BIB_ID
305597
Accession number
MA 381.32
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1856 Dec. 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Written from "Mrs. Green's 17 Orange Grove, Bath."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Praising Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh: "O the wonder of it! -- and O the bore of writing about it!" Reporting that the Brownings have left, and "with them one of my delights -- an evening resort where I never feel unhappy." Giving news about mutual acquaintances: mentioning that Woolner is working on his bust of Tennyson, that "Hunt is going on with his great picture," Hughes has "3 or 4 pictures in hand;" Munro is "still at work for Woodward;" and that Brown received a prize. Referencing the illustrations in Poets of the 19th Century, praising Millais and Hunt, and mentioning that he has done four designs. Noting that Morris and Jones are in London and praising their work; mentioning Ruskin, referencing Elizabeth Siddal's health, and asking after Anna Mary Howitt.