Dante Gabriel Rossetti collection of papers, [1855]-1941 bulk (1863-1882).

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti collection of papers, [1855]-1941 bulk (1863-1882).

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, legal documents, and portraits. The correspondence includes letters from Rossetti to George Price Boyce; to Ford Madox Brown mentioning Ford Madox Ford as a baby; to Clarence E. Fry; Charles Augustus Howell; Francis Hueffer; Macmillan and Co.; Charles Eliot Norton; James Anderson Rose; and others. Also included are letters from Gordon Bottomley to Edith Sitwell; from Charles Davis to Humbert Wolfe; from Harry Treffry Dunn to Theodore Watts-Dunton; from William Sharp to H. Buxton Forman; from Frederic J. Shields to Theodore Watts-Dunton; and from Watts-Dunton to various correspondents relating to Rossetti's house in 16 Cheyne walk.

161 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6781953

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Macmillan & Co.

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Boyce, George Price, 1826-1897

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Epithet: RWS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x0000b2 Epithet: art-collector British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0001ef English landscape painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 33 Glebe Place, London, to Henry M. Ormerod, 1878 July 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131447 ...

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Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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Fry, Clarence E.

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Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917

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Valpy, Leonard R.

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Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948

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Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911

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