Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Edmund Bates, 1880 Apr. 10.

BIB_ID
305869
Accession number
MA 382.27
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1880 Apr. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and location taken from postmark.
Dated "11 April 1880" at head of letter in an unknown hand, but postmark is dated April 10th.
Envelope with postage and postmarks, addressed to "Edmund 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
Asking again that he return his "grand specimens," responding to the favorable report on his son's health and mentioning the "sudden death" of Miss Heaton's brother.