BIB_ID
306125
Accession number
MA 1640.19
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1876 Oct. 8.
Credit line
Purchased, 1955.
Description
1 item (13 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti primarily to Mrs. William Cowper-Temple. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Written from 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Provenance
Purchased from Maggs in 1955.
Summary
Sending birthday wishes; indicating that he is sending her portrait to Stanhope St. after a "blunder on the frame maker's part" is corrected; explaining the reason for his lack of contact as having been busy at work on a portrait of Mrs. [Holme] Sumner; describing his health and the pain relief he has experienced from mesmerism; asking her to give his love to her husband and Miss Munro and indicating that there is little to show at their next visit because of his work on Mrs. [Holme] Sumner's portrait; mentioning that her own portrait has been favorably viewed by several visitors but encouraging her to sit for a second one; appending a post-script regarding the rapidly declining state of his sister Maria's health.
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