BIB_ID
305738
Accession number
MA 382.16
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1879 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postage and postmarks, addressed to "Edmund Bates Esq., 1 Upper Fountaine Street, Leeds."
Location taken from postmark.
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.
Location taken from postmark.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Expressing his delight at hearing of his "success as to [William Bell] Scott"; thanking him for work done on his own behalf; commenting on his requirements for a replacement secretary and how he'd like to proceed; mentioning an improved copy of "Blessed Dam[oze]l."
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