BIB_ID
305689
Accession number
MA 382.10
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1879 Sept. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.1 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
Acknowledging receipt of payment for Smetham's "Squirrels' Haunt"; mentioning that Miss Heaton would have been interested in a small painting, but that there were none left; requesting an update on the Blake portraits; explaining how he came to be acquainted with Henry James Townsend and discussing his finer works; probing his interest in a possible business relationship.
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