BIB_ID
305693
Accession number
MA 381.48
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1865 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "W. Allingham Esq / Lymington / Hants."
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."
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
Apologizing for not having answered his letter from several months ago inviting him to visit, and regretting that he will be unable to do so; thanking him for the gift of his book Fifty Modern Poems.
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