BIB_ID
305681
Accession number
MA 382.6
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1879 July 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postage and postmarks, addressed to "Edmund Bates Esq., 1 Upper Fountaine Street, Leeds."
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 16 Cheyne Walk.
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 16 Cheyne Walk.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Requesting a "buyer's cheque" and indicating that he'll have Mrs. Smetham send a receipt; mentioning his hope that there has been progress regarding the Blake portraits; mentioning that Miss Heaton was interested in seeing the Smetham paintings.
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