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Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to William Allingham, [1859 Dec.].

BIB_ID
305623
Accession number
MA 381.37
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1859 Dec.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 17.9 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Critiquing the inclusion some of the poems in Allingham's Nightingale Valley, listing those that he doubts should be considered among the "Choicest English Poems." Further commenting that "there's too much Wordsworth," noting that "He's good, you know, but unbearable." Pointing out two lines were omitted from Ulalume. Concluding by praising the preface and his poem Mea Culpa.