BIB_ID
305632
Accession number
MA 381.41
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1860] Nov. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
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 "Blackfriars."
Year from Fredeman.
Written from "Blackfriars."
Year from Fredeman.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Asking him to return his manuscript book of verse when he can; mentioning that Gilchrist is writing a life of William Blake and has asked to see Rossetti's manuscript "by that genius;" reporting that Lizzie "has been rather stronger of late;" discussing the possibility of illustrating Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and mentioning Robert Browning; asking if he has seen a new volume by Algernon Swinburne and describing Swinburne as "very Topsaic, with a decided dash of Death's Jest Book."
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