BIB_ID
305803
Accession number
MA 382.21
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1880 Jan. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 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
Indicating that there is no reason for his drawings to remain with him at Leeds any longer, since "they might go off here, you see" and that he may keep a profile of his choosing; suggesting that he keep the second case with him for now, as they'd "only be in the way here."
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