BIB_ID
305768
Accession number
MA 381.59
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Friday [1870 Nov.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
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 from "16 Cheyne Walk."
Written from "16 Cheyne Walk."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Regretfully informing him that the high tide flooded Rossetti's basement the previous day and that three of Allingham's boxes of books "were a foot or more deep in water for some time."
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