BIB_ID
305960
Accession number
MA 382.42
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1862 Jan. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (11 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
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.
Written from 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars.
Written from 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Writing sympathetically and at length about the loss of her husband; mentioning a letter from Mr. Wells [widower of Joanna Wells] that he wishes to send her but has misplaced; indicating that he will show her letter to Mr. Madox Brown; discussing a drawing he wishes to do of her husband and requesting a daguerreotype she had mentioned or possibly a more recent photo to help him along; discussing a prefatory biographical notice on her husband that should "surely now be prefixed to the Life of Blake"; reminding her of his offer of assistance regarding publication of the book; mentioning that he "sent the books to the London Library."
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