Eleven Valentines written by Christina Rossetti to her mother; 1876-1886. Autograph fair copies written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of various cream and grey laid papers (ff. 20 and 21 are wove paper). With the exception of ff. 2 and 3 all the leaves form bifolia with another leaf o...
Letter from his mother Mrs Frances Rossetti to D. G. Rossetti praising his sequence of sonnets 'True Woman' (printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, pp. 218-220) and speaking of his forthcoming holiday in the Lake District; 16 Sept. 1881. Printed in part in O. Doughty, A Victorian Romantic, second...
Two Letters from his mother, Frances Rossetti, to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1 July, 29 Aug. 1872. Both letters comment on Rossetti's holiday in Perthshire, and give an account of Christina Rossetti's health. In the earlier Mrs Rossetti describes a visit to the zoo with W. M. Rossetti, and in the l...
