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Autograph letter signed : London, to Edmund Bates, 1880 Jan. 1.

BIB_ID
305752
Accession number
MA 382.18
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1880 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and location taken from postmark.
Envelope with postage and postmarks, addressed to "E. 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Expressing his relief at hearing of his son's improved condition; suggesting that they speak in person about "the secretary matter"; discussing authorship of a painting [referred to in previous letter (MA 382.15) as his "great acquisition"], the possibility of it being a Velazquez or a Tristan, and the anticipated decision of [Frederic W.] Burton at the National Gallery; apologizing if having said anything to "impugn" his friend [Samuel Joshua] Cooper's "liberality."