BIB_ID
306338
Accession number
MA 3671.1
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1861 Nov. 19].
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Tuesday evening."
Docketed by Gilchrist at head of letter; date is from docket.
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti primarily to Mrs. Alexander Gilchrist. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed by Gilchrist at head of letter; date is from docket.
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti primarily to Mrs. Alexander Gilchrist. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne in 1974.
Summary
Inviting him to join "two or three blokes & a cove" on Friday evening, "nothing but oysters & of course the seediest of clothes"; returning a segment of his "Life of Blake" that he enjoyed reading and indicating that he left "2 red chalk surmises in margin"; mentioning a "Cloth of Gold" picture by Holbein at Hampton; describing a recent date with a "more meteoric even than usual" Swinburne.
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