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Call Number:
MSS 47
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Title(s):
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton
Date:
1856 May 13
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 56.34
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, The material passed from Ellen Heaton to her nephew John Heaton, and subsequently to his brother Beresford Heaton, then to Katherine Ogilvy Heaton, and finally to Elizabeth Maud Sackville Robertson. Sold at auction, Christie, Manson & Woods, July 16, 1969 (see catalog entry no. 117).
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

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:
"Tomorrow by all means, for the pleasure of seeing you and Miss [Arabella Moulton] Barrett. I've written to Mr. [William Holman] Hunt, asking him to fix a day and hour, if tomorrow would not do for him -- is not that best?"
Additional Notes:
With envelope. Date from Fredeman.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Art
Art appreciation
Collectors and collecting
Painters
Painting, British
Photography
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Barrett, Arabella, -1868
Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Finding Aid Title:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5859.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369903
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369903?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1