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Call Number:
MSS 31
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Title(s):
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to William Houghton Clabburn
Date:
1865 May 1
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 9
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
"My dear Clabburn, I am taking your <title>Magdalene</title> in hand again, and shall have finished it without fail in six weeks or two months at latest, probably earlier. Meanwhile it would be greatly to my convenience if you would kindly let me have the remainder of its price now on its last resumption instead of on delivery. I have hesitated to ask this favour of you, lest the long delay which has occurred with the picture should cause you to think its completion in the specified time a declining matter. But you may rely on its getting done within the time discussed [?]. If you will oblige me in this, may I ask you to send me the money on receipt of the present letter, in the form of 2 Bank of England notes for £50 and £20 respectively, by post registered, which from I know by frequent experience that they will reach me quite safely. I always request, when it occurs to me, that money may be sent thus, as cheques, particularly country cheques, give me much trouble through my having no banker. With kind rememberances to Mrs. Clabburn (who will with yourself truly be visible here some time in the picture season.) I am, my dear Clabburn, Yours very truly, DG Rossetti"
Additional Notes:
Printed letterhead: 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Art
Collectors and collecting
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911. Mort de Saint François
Painters
Painting, British
Peacocks
Reproduction
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Clabburn, William Houghton, 1819 or 1820-1889
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Finding Aid Title:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to William Houghton Clabburn
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5858.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369884
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369884?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1