BIB_ID
306129
Accession number
MA 1640.20
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1876 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Purchased, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 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.
Provenance
Purchased from Maggs in 1955.
Summary
Sending thanks on behalf of Knewstub for the purchase of his work; thanking her for her "aid to the raffle scheme" (pertaining to Knewstub); describing his sister's "ecstatic elevation" despite her condition, for "such is the approach to Death of a Soul that has always lived in its presence and learned to love its face."
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