BIB_ID
305688
Accession number
MA 381.46
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1863 Aug. [6].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Day of writing from Fredeman.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "William Allingham Esq / Lymington / Hampshire."
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 with a design incorporating a tree and Rossetti's initials in two roundels and "16 Cheyne Walk / Chelsea."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "William Allingham Esq / Lymington / Hampshire."
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 with a design incorporating a tree and Rossetti's initials in two roundels and "16 Cheyne Walk / Chelsea."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Proposing to possibly visit Allingham and mentioning that Ned Jones may call on him soon; stating that "this house goes on getting more settled & I more restless," and noting that he hardly sees anyone; proposing to send proof sheets of his biography of William Blake; asking if he has seen the blue-book on the Royal Academy; mentioning visits by Ruskin ("he talked such awful rubbish, but he is a dear old chap too") and Browning (he "stayed & walked many times round the rooms & many times stood still with his hands in his pockets & his eyes wide open.").
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