BIB_ID
305740
Accession number
MA 381.54
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Wednesday [1868 Dec. 23].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Dating from Fredeman.
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.
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
Mentioning that he has been "looking up a few old Sonnets & writing a few new ones," which he intends to publish in the Fortnightly in March; enclosing (not present) two sonnets and asking for Allingham's opinion of them; referencing his eye disorder. With a postscript inviting him to visit for Christmas and discussing Browning's "Ring and the Book."
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