BIB_ID
305617
Accession number
MA 381.36
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Thursday [1859 Dec. 22].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Dating from Fredeman.
Envelope with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Wm Allingham Esq / The Lane / Ballyshannon / Ireland." Postmarks are for March 16, 17, 18, 1857 and this envelope apparently did not enclose the letter it accompanies.
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.
Envelope with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Wm Allingham Esq / The Lane / Ballyshannon / Ireland." Postmarks are for March 16, 17, 18, 1857 and this envelope apparently did not enclose the letter it accompanies.
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 [Nightingale Valley]; stating that he was afraid Allingham was displeased with him, but noting that the gift leads him to hope he was mistaken; asking who is the author of the poem Mea Culpa; wishing him a Merry Christmas.
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