Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898, Edward Burne-Jones letter to Cormell Price, 1862 February 23
- Call Number:
- MSS 45
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
- Title(s):
- Edward Burne-Jones letter to Cormell Price
- Date:
- 1862 February 23
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 15
- 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 thanks Price for his last letter, commenting that it has been passed around and shared with "all who want [Price] back." He pleads with Price to move back to Britain, offering Price a room in his home until he can find something permanent. He tells Price his family are spending three months in Venice from May and that Price could have their home in London to himself. Burne-Jones tells Price that Elizabeth Siddall has died and that Rossetti is "smashed for the time." He says it is his aunt's birthday and that she is grateful for Price's letter. Burne-Jones reports that his wife and son are well, describing his son as "the fattest boy ... known to Art or nature." He proceeds with a lengthy describe of his son, of whom his parents are "very proud." He tells Price that Jane Burden Morris, wife of William Morris, is expecting twins. Burne-Jones says that George Price Boyce is in Cairo and that Hughes (Arthur?) had become father to twins, when last Burne-Jones heard from him. He also describes their friends "Dickides" (Richard Watson Dixon?), Val Prinsep, Ford Madox Brown, William Fulford and Charles Faulkner. Burne-Jones pleads again with Price to come back to live near them all, and describes the excellent location of their house in London to encourage Price to reside there. He describes the seduction techniques employed by their friend William Fulford, who "develop[s] [women] into adoration of him and leaves them to pine." Burne-Jones ends by encouraging Price to come back and giving Price Burne- Jones's infant son's "fat little dumpy slobbery love."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from "62 Great Russell St." and References: Georgiana Burne-Jones, v. 1, p. 259
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 21 x 27 cm, folded to 21 x 14 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- English poetryPainters
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898Dixon, Richard Watson, 1833-1900Faulkner, Charles Joseph, 1833-1892Fulford, William, -1897Price, Cormell, approximately 1836-1910Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882Siddall, Elizabeth
- 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/2406132
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2406132?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1