BIB_ID
305723
Accession number
MA 381.51
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Monday [1867 Sept. 30].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Dating from postmarks and from Fredeman.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "W. Allingham / 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.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "W. Allingham / 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Inviting him to visit; expressing anxiety about his health, noting that he has found "the confusion in my head & the strain on my eyes in working to be decidedly rather on the increase." Mentioning an appointment to see the oculist Bowman.
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