Letter to Frederic James Shields, December 24, 1869

Item — Box: 1, Folder: D.4.34

Letter to Frederic James Shields (MS23 D.4.34)

Dates

Creation: December 24, 1869

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source unknown, acquired prior to 1971; As a group, formerly in folder 4.

General

"1869 Dec 24; Sponsoring Brown; Colvin; Graham's extraordinary conduct concerning the commission; my health and sight; drink. Have resumed painting and drawing; Dante's Dream, Found, Medusa; plans; studio-building. Poetry volume forthcoming; Morris' Paradise; Tennyson. Craven; Brown's watercolour of Don Juan; Ned Jones. Partly published Mills (Ernestine Mills. The Life and Letters of Frederick Shields, 1912) pages 137-139."