BIB_ID
306671
Accession number
MA 3671.15
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1880] Mar. 25.
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Pages 5-8 in mylar sleeve following first portion of letter.
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.
Year is from Fredeman.
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.
Year is from Fredeman.
Provenance
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne in 1974.
Summary
Regarding second edition of "Life of Blake" - discussing illustrations and [James] Smetham's review of the first edition; recommending emendations for "the Adam & Eve story"; indicating that he would like to see "the new letters to Hayley" and commenting on a reference to "the Jerusalem" in a letter to [Frederick] Butts; complaining of the binding; sharing his thoughts on "a better [reproduction] process for the Job series"; recommending the inclusion of "that letter from Lit. Gazette, with footnote (which I will write if you like) [...]."
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