Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898, Edward Burne-Jones letter to Cormell Price, 1856 January 9
- Call Number:
- MSS 45
- Creator:
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
- Title(s):
- Edward Burne-Jones letter to Cormell Price
- Date:
- 1856 January 9
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 10
- 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:
- Burne-Jones asks why Price has not yet sent the "MS," presumably a piece for The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. He tells him that Burne-Jones's aunt has been Price's "champion all along," transcribing a humorous conversation he had with her at breakfast the previous day, in which Burne-Jones describes Price as a "reprobate" and "a dissolute little creature" while "Auntie" defends him as a "dear little fellow." Burne-Jones says he does not want to hurry Price over the magazine but that they should "make a work of it, and not a mere pastime." Burne-Jones instructs Price to send his piece to him. He laments a previous issue's article on Charles Kingsley, saying that although the group plans to amend the piece in future copies of the article, it has "already done us a great deal of harm, especially in the Universities." He notes that Harry MacDonald has sent a "very severe letter" to Wilfred Heeley about the matter. Burne-Jones states that William Morris (referred to here as "Topsy") has passed on editorship powers to William Fulford, remarking that the move "will be a good thing for all of us, and a great relief to Topsy." He describes a dinner he had with Morris and MacDonald at Brompton which he says was "like old times." Burne-Jones gleefully comments that he will "get an awful showing up in the Guardian ... for that wretched affair on Kingsley." He ends by telling Price about an upcoming boxing match (?), which he says will be followed by a "general challenge to Universal Pigdom, for the championship -- odds, Ten to one, on the side of Truth and, O.C.M."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from "Camberwell." and References: Georgiana Burnes-Jones, v. 1, p. 127
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter ; 19 x 23 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- English poetryOxford and Cambridge magazinePainters
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898Fulford, William, -1897Heeley, Wilfred, 1833-1876Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875Macdonald, Henry James, 1835-1891Morris, William, 1834-1896Price, Cormell, approximately 1836-1910
- Finding Aid Title:
- Edward Burne-Jones Letters to Cormell Price
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5895.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2406127
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2406127?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1