BIB_ID
305655
Accession number
MA 381.43
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1860 Nov. 29].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 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 on stationery embossed "EER."
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 on stationery embossed "EER."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Reporting that his manuscript book of verse has arrived and thanking him for his suggestions; responding to his inquiry that Elizabeth "does draw still," and praising her as a "real genius;" agreeing with Allingham's loathing of the publication Once a Week; asking about the subject of Allingham's poem; mentioning that he does not think Swinburne's plays will be to Allingham's liking.
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