Autograph letters signed and initialled from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various people [manuscript], 1864-[1881?].
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Autograph letters signed and initialled from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various people [manuscript], 1864-[1881?].
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4 items.
Associated name
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882, sender.
Davies, William, 1830-1896, addressee.
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914, addressee.
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902, addressee.
Davies, William, 1830-1896, addressee.
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914, addressee.
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902, addressee.
Scope and content
Among other things, Rossetti refers to his illustrations for Shakespeare's plays and other drawings. (1) to [William?] Davies, February 19, 1879; (2) to Ernest Gambart, April 26, 1864; and (3-4) to T. Watts-Dunton, 1879 and 1881? In (4), Rossetti enclosed emendments for certain poems in his forthcoming book, Ballads and Sonnets, published in 1881. (5) is a draft of a sonnet "On certain Elisabethan Revivals", beginning O ruff-embastioned vast Elizabeth.
Note
Rosetti's unpublished sonnet "On certain Elisabethan Revivals" was given to Hall Caine for his Sonnets of Three Centuries, [1882], but was afterwards withdrawn. Poem listed in the Folger card index of first lines.
Exhibited
Y.c.1457 (5) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, "The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2002, p. 209-210.
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Y.c.1457 (1-5)
Folger accession
cs1073, 1176, 1566, 1855