Letter to W. M. Rossetti, 1857-08-10

Item — Box: 2, Folder: W.6.18

Letter to W. M. Rossetti (MS23 W.6.18)

Dates

Creation: 1857-08-10

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: Ward, Edward Matthew, 1816-1879. Summary: Monday [1857 Aug 10 in pencil], 11 Upton Park Villas Slough; Summary: Sorry for your lack of success with Mrs Gibbons. Mrs Ward hopes Mr Gambart might lend her "May Queen", though the Lady's Exhibition just borrowed it. My "Sleep of Argyll" is being engraved by Lloyd the publisher, and I doubt it can be spared. Marked "E. M. Ward, R.A. Painter." Annotator probably W. M. Rossetti.