Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Title: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection Dates: 1829-1947, undated Extent: 5 document boxes, 1 oversize box (3.12 linear feet) Abstract: Includes manuscripts and correspondence by or related to the British poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Correspondents include Ford Madox Brown, Robert Browning, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Frederick Startridge Ellis, Charles Augustus Howell, John Everett Millais, Charles Fairfax Murray, John Ruskin, Frederic James Shields, Alfred Tennyson, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and others, including various members of the Rossetti family. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-3624 Language: English, Italian, Latin Access: Open for research Administrative Information Processed by: Joan Sibley and Daniela Lozano, 2012 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Title: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection
Dates: 1829-1947, undated
Extent: 5 document boxes, 1 oversize box (3.12 linear feet)
Abstract: Includes manuscripts and correspondence by or related to the Britishpoet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Correspondents include FordMadox Brown, Robert Browning, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,Frederick Startridge Ellis, Charles Augustus Howell, John EverettMillais, Charles Fairfax Murray, John Ruskin, Frederic JamesShields, Alfred Tennyson, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, andothers, including various members of the Rossetti family.
Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-3624
Language: English, Italian, Latin
Access: Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by: Joan Sibley and Daniela Lozano, 2012
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previouslyavailable only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at theend of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement ofthe manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used indescriptions.
Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
Astarte syriaca, signed handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Originally withMiscellaneous II.
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The blessed damozel, handwritten manuscript in an unidentified hand, 2 pagesbound, undated. Binding label indicates original handwritten manuscript, butprobably a fair copy, if not a forgery.
Container1.2
Dante's dream, printed broadside, 1 page, undated. From Hanley II. Container1.1
Dennis Shand, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 5 pages, undated.Accompanying this: AN by Murray, Charles Fairfax.
Dis manibus O. M. B. natus 1856 – obiet 1874, handwritten manuscript, 1 page,undated. Originally with Miscellaneous II.
Hero's lamp, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 2 pages, undated.Included: quotation from Burton, Richard, Anatomy, written in Rossetti's hand.
Lay in with violet carmine…, handwritten manuscript with many revisions, 2 pageson 1 leaf, undated.
A little while, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, bound, undated. From Hanley II. Container1.3
The next new Hamlet's soliloquy, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Container1.1
O bella mano, che ti lavi e piaci…, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 1page, undated. Written in Italian. Originally with Miscellaneous II.
O lovely hand, that thy sweet self…, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 1page, undated. Originally with Miscellaneous II.
Plighted promise, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From Hanley II.
Proserpina, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Written in Italian. Originallywith Miscellaneous II.
Proserpine, 2 signed handwritten manuscripts, 2 pages on 1 leaf, undated. Onewritten in Italian.
Sonnet on a sonnet, printed with signed handwritten inscription to Constantine A.Ionides, 27 April 1880. From Hanley II.
The staff and scrip, handwritten manuscript/ early version with extensive revisions
The staff and scrip, handwritten manuscript/ early version with extensive revisionsand workings, 16 pages, undated. Written with this: Friday, handwritten manuscriptwith revisions, 1 page, undated.
The staff and scrip, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete with revisions, 4 pages on3 leaves, undated.
Stiff white, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 4 pages, undated. Drawing of"palette for flesh" on verso with colors indicated.
Sudden light, handwritten manuscript in an unidentified hand, 1 page, undated.Removed from PR 5240 E770b HRC. From the Hanley Collection.
Title page for Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, handwrittenmanuscript/ draft, 1 page, undated.
Angiolieri, Cecco, circa 1258-circa 1312. Never so bare and naked waschurch-stone…, translated by Rossetti, handwritten manuscript in Rossetti's hand, 1page, undated. From the Wrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (In)
Angiolieri, Cecco, circa 1258-circa 1312. Va, rivisti San Gal privia che dichi…,translated by Rossetti, handwritten manuscript in Rossetti's hand, 1 page, undated.From the Wrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (Iq)
Donati, Ferese. L'altra note mi vienne una gron tosse…., translated by Rossetti,handwritten manuscript in Rossetti's hand, 2 pages, undated. From the WrennCollection.
Container1.4 (Io-Ip)
Hugo, Victor Marie, Comte, 1802-1885. Les burgraves: translated in part by Rossetti,handwritten manuscript in hand of Rossetti, 2 pages, undated. Entitled Two songsfrom Victor Hugo's Burgraves. From the Wrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (Id)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882:
Antwerp and Bruges, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. From the WrennCollection.
Container1.4 (If)
At the sun-rise in 1848, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From the WrennCollection.
Container1.4 (Ie)
Barcarola, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Written in Italian. TitleSerenata crossed through. From the Wrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (Ih)
The cup of water, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. From the WrennCollection.
Container1.4 (Ib)
Dawn on the night journey, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From theWrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (Ig)
Do still thy best…, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. Intended forinsertion in Rossetti's poem Soothsay. From the Wrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (Ir)
The lady's lament, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. Title A lamentcrossed through. From the Wrenn Collection.
Container1.4 (Im)
My sister's sleep/ Glory unto the newly born!..., handwritten manuscript in thehand of Christina Georgina Rossetti, 4 pages, undated. From the WrennCollection.
Container1.4 (Is)
Notes for Rossetti's Early Italian poets, handwritten manuscript, 7 pages, undated.From the Wrenn Collection.
Note: for McMillan numbers cited below, see McMillan, Connie Beth. A Catalogue of theLetters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at The University of Texas at Austin (doctoral dissertation, TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, 1975). List of letters cited in Fredeman, William E. TheCorrespondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002) available in repository.
ALS/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated; McMillan 936. Container1.5
ALS/ draft to unidentified recipient, undated. Written in Italian; not in McMillan.
3 ALS to Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st baron, January 1857?, 27 July 1860,15 December 1872; McMillan 907-909.
ALS to Allen, George, undated (31 July 1860); McMillan 860.
ALS to Bayley, Mrs., undated (June 1871?); McMillan 861.
7 ALS to Boyce, George Price, 1855-1868, undated; McMillan 853-859. Oneincludes sketch of "Fanny's portrait composition."
Container1.6
ALI to Brown, Ford Madox, undated (1879?); McMillan 826. Container 1.5
ALI to Brown, Ford Madox, undated; not in McMillan.
ALS to Brown, Ford Madox, undated (7 December 1873). Removed from Wp R735843s. From the Wrenn Collection; McMillan 823.
3 ALS to Brown, Ford Madox, 27 August 1867, 1873, undated; McMillan 821-822,828.
7 ALS to Brown, Ford Madox, 21 August no year, undated; McMillan 824-825,827, 829-832.
2 ALS to Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, undated; McMillan 891-892.
ALS to Burton, Richard, Captain, undated (22 December 1880); McMillan 862.
ALS to Butts, Frederick, 5 August 1863; McMillan 863. Included with this: ALSAlexander Gilchrist to Thomas Butts, 23 November 1860. From Hanley II.
ALS to Cameron, Julia Margaret, 29 April 1867; not in McMillan. Container1.7
ALS to Chesneau, Ernest, 15 March 1882. Body of letter in the hand of ChristinaRossetti; McMillan 893.
ALS to Chesneau, Ernest Alfred, 23 March 1882. Body of letter in the hand ofChristina Rossetti; McMillan 894. With this: AN by Charles Fairfax Murray.
ALS to Cowper, Mrs., 17 July 1866; McMillan 905.
ALS to Craig, Isa, October 1866; McMillan 865.
ALS/ draft to Craig, Isa, October 1866; not in McMillan. On verso of ALS/ draft to A.Macmillan, October 1866.
Container3.5
4 ALS, 2 ANS to Craven, Frederick, 1865-1874; McMillan 921-925, 932. Container1.7
ALS to Dallas, Eneas Sweetland, 3 November 1864; McMillan 866.
3 ALS to Dalrymple, Sophia Pattle, Lady, 2 May 1861, undated; McMillan910-912.
ALS to Dalziel, Edward re illustration to Browning, undated (circa 6 March 1856);not in McMillan.
ALS to Deschamps, Mr., undated (11 November 1872?); McMillan 867.
17 ALS, ALS/ incomplete to Dixon, Thomas, 1863-1879, undated; McMillan770-788.
Container1.8
ALS to Edwards, Amelia B., 16 April 1878; McMillan 869. Container 1.7
5 ALS to Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1 November 1871, 6 August 1878, 3 February1880, undated; McMillan 692, 696, 697, 700, 933. Photograph of Rossetti pasted onletter of 1 November 1871.
Container1.9
36 ALS, 3 AL, ANS to Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1860-1881, undated; McMillan686-691, 693-695, 698-699, 701-709, 711-715, 717-722, 724-727, 729-732. FromHanley II.
3 ALS to Fry, Clarence E., 15 March, 14 and 18 June 1876; McMillan 870; 2 itemsnot in McMillan.
Container1.7
ALS to Furnivall, Frederick James, 5 May no year (1877); McMillan 896.
ALS to Furnivall, Frederick James, 16 July 1858; McMillan 895. Removed fromWp R735 857s. From the Wrenn Collection.
ALS to Gambart, Mrs., 13 April 1866; McMillan 871.
ALS to Gillum, (William), Major, 6 November 1865; McMillan 872.
ALS to Hake, Thomas Gordon, 22 January 1872; McMillan 873.
ALS to Hamilton, (Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage), 20 May 1865;McMillan 874.
ALS to Hogg, J. F., circa 1857; McMillan 875.
466 ALS, 27 APCS to Howell, Charles Augustus, 1865-1876, undated; McMillan 1-489; 4 itemsnot in McMillan.
Undated. Container 2.1-3
1865; see PR 5240 F03b HRC for ALS, 10 April 1865 with newspaper clippingtipped into copy of The poetical works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1903). Bookplate of Clifford Bax.
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1866. Container 2.5
1867. Container 2.6
1868. Container 2.7-8
1869. Container 2.9
1870. Container 2.10
1871. Container 2.11
1872. Container 2.12
1873. Container 2.13-14
1874. Container 2.15
1875. Container 3.1
1876. Container 3.2
30 ALS, 7 ALI to Howell, Frances Catherine, 1865-1875, undated; McMillan733-769.
Container3.3
ALS to Ionides, Alecco A., 29 December 1865; McMillan 876. Container1.7
2 ALS to Ionides, Alexander Constantine, 25 January and 13 February 1864;McMillan 897-898.
5 ALS to Ionides, Chariclea Anthea Euterpe, 28 July 1871, undated; McMillan926-930.
8 ALS to Knewstub, W. J., 31 October 1865, undated; McMillan 844-852. Container3.4
ALS to MacClenmar, undated; not in McMillan. Container 3.5
ALS to Macmillan, Alexander, 31 October 1861; McMillan 899.
ALS/ draft to Macmillan, Alexander, October 1866; McMillan 900. On verso: ALS/draft to Craig, Isa, October 1866.
ALS/ copy to Marks, undated. Copy in the hand of Howell, Charles Augustus;McMillan 877.
2 ALS to Marston, John Westland, 25 August 1878, 28 November 1881; McMillan901-902.
ALS to Marston, Philip Bourke suggesting that he write a series of nature poems,30 November 1875. Not described in card catalog (purchase, R13743, 1996); not inMcMillan.
ALS to Mason, George Heming, 9 April 1866; McMillan 878.
ALS to Merritt, Henry, undated (circa 10 April 1867); McMillan 879.
ALS to Moxon, Edward re illustration to Tennyson, undated (circa 26 January1857); McMillan 935.
ALS to Murray, Charles Fairfax re Rossetti's The staff and scrip, undated;McMillan 685.
43 ALS, 17 ANS, APCS to Murray, Charles Fairfax, bound, 1869-1881; McMillan624-684.
Container6.1
ALS to Noble, James Ashcroft, 14 October (1880); McMillan 880. Container3.5
ALS to Pinti, Raffaelle, 10 April no year (1876); McMillan 882.
ALS to Ricciardi, Giuseppe, 17 May 1881. Written in Italian; not in McMillan.
ALS to Rintoul, Robert Stephen, 14 September no year (1854); McMillan 931.
ALS to Rossetti, Frances Mary Lavinia, Mrs., 28 February 1854; McMillan 913.
ALS to Rossetti, Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori( "Antique" ), March 1867;McMillan 914.
ALS to Rossetti, Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori( "My dear Mamma" ), undated (23November 1853); McMillan 915.
Dixon, Thomas, 1831-1880. Despatch February 16, 1862; Death of a lady fromoverdose of laudanum, handwritten manuscript re Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Rossetti,2 pages, circa 1862.
Container4.2
Hake, Alfred Egmont. ALS to Meynell, Alice Christina Thompson re Rossetti, 22April 1882.
Leigh Smith, C. ALS to Meynell, Alice Christina Thompson re Rossetti, 31 May noyear.
Meynell, Alice Christina Thompson, 1847-1922. Dante Gabriel Rossetti andcontemporary poets, typescript/ copy, 17 April 1882. Written on this: ANS "Fred,"11 September 1947.
Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948. Fuseli: artist and aphorist, printed article withhandwritten revisions by Rossetti, 4 pages, undated. Published in The art journal,March 1885.
Moeller, N. Golde. ALS to Meynell, Alice Christina Thompson, 31 May 1910.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.ALS/ fragment to unidentified recipient,undated. This fragment received with 11 ALS to Henry Virtue Tebbs from Rossetti.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.Bank draft made payable to William Sharp,ADS, 1 page, 18 December 1880. Endorsed by Sharp on verso.
Unidentified author. List, handwritten manuscript, 18 pages, undated. Concernscontents of Rossetti album (Miscellaneous II.);items possibly were in possession of J.B. Schott, husband of Fanny Cornforth.
Container4.4
Unidentified author. ALS to Shepherd, 5 August 1866. Container 4.5
Aide, Hamilton, 1826-1906. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Allingham, William, 1824-1889. ANS, ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, Sir, 1836-1912. ALS/ fragment to unidentified recipient,19 December no year.
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, Sir, 1836-1912. ANS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 4December 1871.
Ansted, D. G. ALS to Ruskin, John, 23 April 1866.
Anthony, Mark. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Ashburton, Lady. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Boehm, Joseph Edgar, Sir, 1834-1890. 3 ANS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 19 April1869, undated.
Britten. ALS to Dunn, Henry Treffry, 1874.
Browne, Edward Harold, 1811-1891. ALS to Collette, Charles Hastings, 8 January1876.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 22 December 1868.
Buckingham, Duke of. Handwritten signature, undated.
Buelland. ANS, unidentified handwritten signature, undated.
Bunsen. ALS to Johnson, 18 August 1853.
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, 1833-1898. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,undated.
Burne-Jones, Georgiana Macdonald, Lady, d. 1920. ALS to Dalrymple, SophiaPattle, Lady, 8 August 1899. Related to 3 ALS from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to LadyDalrymple.
Burton, Frederick, Sir. ALS, ANS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated (circa 1871).
Morley, John Morley, Viscount, 1838-1923. ALS, ANS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,20 February 1863, 25 October 1870.
Morris, William, 1834-1896. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Murchison, R., Sir. ANS to unidentified recipient, 5 December 1860.
Nettleship, John Trivett, 1841-1902. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Newman, J. W. ALS to Chapman, undated.
O'Shaughnessey, Arthur. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 20 January 1871.
Oxenford, John, 1812-1877. ALS to Johnson, undated.
Parsons, J. R. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 3 January 1873. Written on this: ANby Rossetti.
Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, 1823-1896. 3 ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,25 July 1855, 8 November 1855, 19 May 1858.
Payne, John, 1842-1916. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1 November 1871.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-. 4 ALS to Murray, Charles Fairfax,1905-1909.
Potter, Cipriani. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 23 January 1859.
Prinsep, Valentine Cameron, 1838-1904. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Procter, Bryan Waller, 1787-1874. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 28 April 1870.
Proctor, Anne. ALS to unidentified recipient, 5 June 1868.
Ralston, W. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 8 November no year. Container4.8
Ranconi, G. ALS to Collette, 9 July 1875. Written in Italian.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.Written on this: Sonnets are full of love, & this our tome…, by Christina Rossetti, 1page, undated.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Rossetti, Francis. ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, undated.
Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown, 1843-1894. 2 ALS to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,undated.
Freeland, Anne, comp. Album of poems, quotations, and drawings… handwrittenmanuscripts and 3 drawings, 35 pages, 1832-1860. Contains works by Dante GabrielRossetti, Benedetto Pistrucci, Filippo Pistrucci, Moscati, Rosamond Clifford, H. W.Freeland, Charles Crocker, Anne Newburgh, and others. Some written in Italian.
Explanatory Note Concerning Manuscript Collections Cataloged in the Card Catalog
Prior to 1990 when archival cataloging procedures were adopted at the Ransom Center, allmanuscript collections were described in a card catalog.
Organization of Collections:
Manuscripts for each author collection were organized into four categories: Works: manuscripts by the author, arranged alphabetically by title;Letters: the author's outgoing correspondence, arranged alphabetically by recipient name;Recipient: the author's incoming correspondence, arranged alphabetically by the author ofthe letter; andMiscellaneous: all other manuscripts and correspondence, arranged alphabetically bycreator.
Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books, and near-printmaterials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom Center collections forcataloging and storage.
Abbreviations Used in Descriptions:
The symbols below were used in combinations. For example ALS means autograph letter signed;Tccms means typed carbon copy manuscript, etc.
A = autograph (i.e., handwritten)T = typedS = signedI = initialedMs = manuscriptMss = manuscriptsL = letterFL = form letterN = noteD = documentC = cardPC = post cardcc = carbon copyp = pagepp = pagesl = leafll = leavesnd = no dateinc d = incomplete date