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Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In volume lettered "Letters from D.G. Rossetti to Dr Franz Huffer"

Note: Sorry to hear of the death of Davis and hopes to do something for his widow. Has finished the chalk drawing of the Blessed Damozel and is waiting for the fame.

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Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In volume lettered "Autograph Letters from Rossetti to William Davies"

Note: The original letters being mounted and bound with typed transcripts in one volume.

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Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In three volumes

Note: A most interesting and highly important collection of letters chiefly dealing with Rossetti's work and his domestic affairs. He refers to the printing of his "Italian Poets" and also to his sister Christina's famous poem, "Goblin Market" which he had asked Ruskin to send to the Cornhill. This had been returned, and Rossetti proposed sending it to Mrs Gaskell. He writes to his brother:

"It is with very great regret and disgust that I enclose

a note from Ruskin about Christina's poems - most

senseless I think. I have told him something of the

sort in my answer ... I have some idea (with C.'s

approval) of sending the Goblins to Mrs Gaskell, who is

good natured and appreciative and might get it into the

Cornhill or elsewhere ..."

Rossetti also makes interesting references to the artist Millais, Swinburne and his work on William Blake, Ruskin's lectures, Philip Bourke Marston, Watts-Dunton, William Morris and other notable people of the period.

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Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In seven volumes

Note: An interesting collection of letters relating chiefly to the production and sale of Rossetti's pictures, his financial embarrassments and domestic difficulties. Included is a series of letters, and transcripts of poems concerned with the writings of Thomas Chatterton, from whose poems Watts-Dunton was preparing a selecion for Ward's "English Poets". These were written in May and June, 1880, and much criticism is indulged in by their writer. There are references to Keats and Coleridge, and Christopher Smart of whom Rossetti says: "It may be remembered that Christopher Smart wrote his Song to David (when made, or supposed to be) in 1763; a poem with far more sterling English pith than anything else so early in that era".

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Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In volume lettered "Autograph Letters from Rossetti to Huffer"

Note: An invitation to dinner; enclosing a leter to Colvin from the Editor of the "Contemporary", with criticism of a sonnet by Huffer; asking him to wait if he is out when he calls; enclosing some critical notes; good wishes for Huffer's marriage and a request that his book may be returned; uncertain he can accept an invitation; hopes he reached hope safely; about some proofs; discussion on the arrangement of an edition of his poems; another letter about this; he is about to send the last proofs to Tauchnitz; no more proofs have arrived as yet; invitation to dinner; hopes to visit him after dinner; accepting an invitation; invitation to dinner; "Is this the evening you asked me to come in?"; invitation to play whist; asking him to visit him as he is kept in with a cold; on a review of Chritina Rossetti's "Shadow of Dane" in the "Athenaeum"; regrets that he cannot accept an invitation.

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Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In volume lettered "Autograph Letters from Rossetti to Huffer"

Note: Declining an invitation.

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Location: SC MS 740/6

Note: Text of "Canzone" by G P da Prato and his translation of the

same. 2 ff.

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