Letter to W. M. Rossetti, 1858-03-02

Item — Box: 2, Folder: W.6.20

Letter to W. M. Rossetti (MS23 W.6.20)

Dates

Creation: 1858-03-02

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: Willis, Henry Brittan, 1810-1884. Summary: 1858 Mar 2 , 7 Lidlington Place; Summary: Your letter failed to reach me in Wales, so I didn't contribute to your first [?] gathering of Pictures. My only available picture is going to Bristol. But if the Committee forms another Exhibition for N. York in the Autumn, I shall contribute. Marked "Brittan Willis -- Water-colour Painter of Cattle &c." Annotator probably W. M. Rossetti.