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

Autograph fragment of a letter signed : place not specified, to Mrs. Gilchrist, [1863 Feb. 13].

BIB_ID
306504
Accession number
MA 3671.16
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1863 Feb. 13].
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Date is from Fredeman.
Fragment begins on folio labeled 2; first portion (probably 4 p.) of letter is missing.
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
Begins "...in this scrawl, and the scraps of paper which are all I can find"; regarding "Life of Blake" - indicating that he is working on the concluding chapter and aims to send it by tomorrow; explaining his delay and noting the work he has done "in all [her] matter"; discussing "Young Love" and the two copies of the "Everlasting Gospel"; describing having seen Capt. [Frederick] Butts' "collection of Blakes."