Letter to "Wm Rossetti", 1858-02-03

Item — Box: 2, Folder: W.6.8

Letter to "Wm Rossetti"

Dates

Creation: 1858-02-03

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase: Myers 386:304 (21 letters & 3 words by Tennyson). Date of acquisition: Spring 1956 catalogue. Description of lot gave names of nos 1, 3-20, Craig, Greenwood . No. 2 is of unknown provenance, but may also have been part of the lot. Previously part of MS 23W.3 (now obsolete).

General

Author: Harding, James Duffield, 1798-1863. Summary: 1858 Feb 3, 3 Abercorn Place NW; Summary: Your letters of 27 Jan and 1 Feb assure me that my Pictures will return to me soon. "The result of this attempt to establish British Art in the New World has been anything but satisfactory." Marked "J.D. Harding, the late Landscape painter." Annotator probably W. M. Rossetti.