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Letter to "Sir", 1857-08-25

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: W.6.12
Letter to "Sir" (MS23 W.6.12)
Letter to "Sir" (MS23 W.6.12)

Dates

  • Creation: 1857-08-25

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: Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 . Summary: [1857 in pencil] Aug 25 , Paris, 21 rue Pigalle; Summary: The Post Office failed to deliver your letter and Prospectus of the projected Exhibition of British pictures in America. I would like to contribute; would you write to me soon, as I start in a fortnight for Africa? Are you Dante Rosetti's [sic] brother? remember me to him. Marked "Leighton the Painter." Annotator probably W. M. Rossetti.

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