Ashley MS 1364 (5)

C. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 24 April 1863-26 Aug. 1864. The text is written on both sides of thirty-nine leaves of ruled cream laid paper. No watermark. There is an index on ff. 40, 40b. The principal revisions and additions to the text of the poems are as follows:― (a) Corrections by Christina. ff. 1, 2b, 3, 5, 13, 13b, 15, 15b, 16b, 17, 20b, 21b, 22b, 23, 25b, 27b, 28, 31, 35b, 37, 39;―(b) Change of title apparently in the hand of D. G. Rossetti. The title suggested was in fact finally used when ''A Return'' (ff. 22-24) was printed in The Prince''s Progress, 1866, pp. 114-119. ''Alas, poor Ghost!'' was printed in ibid., pp. 54-56, as ''The Poor Ghost''. f. 10;―(c) Note ''Begin here'', in the hand of W. M. Rossetti, perhaps written when preparing the fragment for printing in New Poems'', and before realising that the whole poem had appeared in Macmillan''s Magazine for May 1865, p. 48, with the title ''Last Night''. f. 15. The lower part of pp. 27, 28 (f. 14) and the upper part of pp. 31, 32 (f. 16), containing the greater part of ''Somewhere or other'', part of ''Last Night'', and part of ''A Chill'', are missing.

In the original covers, repaired, and numbered ''15'' in pencil on f. i.

Octavo; ff. i+40.

includes:

• ff. 1, 1b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Life and Death'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 1b, 2 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Consider'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 2, 2b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Tomorrow?'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 3-9b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Maiden-Song'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• f. 9b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''The Lowest Place'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 10-11b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Alas, poor Ghost!, altered to ''The Ghost''s Petition'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 11b-12 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Have I not striven?'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 12-14 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Margery'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy.
• f. 14b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Somewhere or other'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy. Fragm.
• ff. 15-16 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Last Night'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy. Imperf.
• ff. 16, 16b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''A Chill'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1863: Autogr. fair copy. Imperf.
• ff. 16b-17b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Summer'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• f. 18 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Beauty is Vain'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 18b, 19 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''What would I give?'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 19, 19b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Faint yet pursuing'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 19b-20b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Who shall deliver me?'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 20b, 21 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''In Patience'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 21, 21b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Easter'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 22-24b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''A Return'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 25, 25b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''If'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 26, 26b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''The Audience Chamber'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 26b, 27 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Sunshine'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 27-28b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Twice'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 28b, 29 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Meeting'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• f. 29b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''None with Him'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 30-32 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''In Captivity'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 32b-33b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''A Farm Walk'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1964: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 33b-34b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Under Willows'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 34b, 35 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Bird or Beast?'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 35b, 36 Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''A Sketch'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.
• ff. 36-39b Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, ''Songs in a Cornfield'', by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1864: Autogr. fair copy.