'My Mouse': a poem by Christina Rossetti; New Year's day, 1877. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of cream laid paper. Watermark 'Joyn[ ] / Super[ ]. Signed with initials 'C. G. R.', and dated. First printed in New Poems, 1896, p. 178. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, ...
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...
'Counterblast on Penny Trumpet': a political poem by Christina Rossetti; 1882. Autograph draft with one cancelled stanza, written on both sides of a part octavo leaf of cream laid paper. No watermark. The poem is signed on the verso 'C. G. R. see St. James's Gazette July 21 1882 (motive a Poem)'...
Letters from Christina Rossetti to various correspondents; [6?] March 1877-15 [Jan.] 1890. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, p. 107. As follows:― 1. Letter to Dante Gabriel Rossetti discussing suggestions made by him on the subject of Christina's poem 'Mirrors of Life and Death', printed in the Ath...
Letters (26), one (A1400, ff. 24-25b) imperfect, from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne, W. M. Rossetti, and John Aldam Heaton; 21 Aug. 1869-March 1870. The letters all concern the preparation of D. G. Rossetti's Poems, 1870, published on 24 April. In 1868 or early 1869 Rossetti seems to have decided to print such poetry as he had written, but to issue it privately. In August 1869 he received the first proofs, and after working on them, had the revisions incorporated in a further set...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
'A Prayer': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Two autograph fair copies, differing slightly, the earlier (1388) dated '1846', the later possibly circa 1869. First printed from the later version in The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, pp. 267-268. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, pp. 112, 114.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Letters (3) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, two to his brother William Michael and one (ff. 9, 9b) to his mother, concerning his marriage to Elizabeth Siddal, the state of her health, and their plans; [17 April?]-[9 June?] 1860. Printed, with omissions, in D. G. Rossetti His Family-Letters, ii, 189...
'Eden Bower': a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 19 to end of Sept. 1869. Autograph drafts, heavily revised, and fair copy, apparently representing the whole sequence of composition of the poem. First printed in Poems, 1870, pp. 31-40. The volume was misbound by Wise, and the correct order of ff....
'Poems (Privately Printed)': fragments of a copy of the third set of printed page proofs for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, 1870, with autograph revision, corrections and addition; second half of Sept. 1869. The fragments comprise the title-page and author's note (pp. [i-iv]), and pp. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17-25, 29-40, 45-50, 53-58 of the text, i.e. part of 'The Blessed Damozel', part of 'Love's Nocturn', most of 'The Burden of Nineveh', 'Ave', most of 'The Staff and Scrip', part of 'Sister ...
Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]-1881. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in, and considered for, Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. Although the poems were composed at various dates between 1869 and 1881, it seems probable that, with the exception of 1407-1409 and 1420, the MSS. were written in 1880-1881 when Rossetti was preparing Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3857, 3859, 3860 and 3861 may well have once formed part of the same note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
