Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Title: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection Dates: 1829-1947, undated Extent: 5 document boxes, 1 oversize box (3.12 linear feet) Abstract: Includes manuscripts and correspondence by or related to the British poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Correspondents include Ford Madox Brown, Robert Browning, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Frederick Startridge Ellis, Charles Augustus Howell, John Everett Millais, Charles Fairfax Murray, John Ruskin, Frederic James Shields, Alfred Tennyson, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and others, including various members of the Rossetti family. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-3624 Language: English, Italian, Latin Access: Open for research Administrative Information Processed by: Joan Sibley and Daniela Lozano, 2012 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 2 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 Works: Astarte syriaca, signed handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Originally with Container Miscellaneous II. 1.1 The blessed damozel, handwritten manuscript in an unidentified hand, 2 pages Container bound, undated. Binding label indicates original handwritten manuscript, but 1.2 probably a fair copy, if not a forgery. Container Dante's dream, printed broadside, 1 page, undated. From Hanley II. 1.1 Dennis Shand, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 5 pages, undated. Accompanying this: AN by Murray, Charles Fairfax. Dis manibus O. M. B. natus 1856 – obiet 1874, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Originally with Miscellaneous II. Hero's lamp, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 2 pages, undated. Included: quotation from Burton, Richard, Anatomy, written in Rossetti's hand. Lay in with violet carmine…, handwritten manuscript with many revisions, 2 pages on 1 leaf, undated. Container A little while, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, bound, undated. From Hanley II. 1.3 Container The next new Hamlet's soliloquy, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 O bella mano, che ti lavi e piaci…, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 1 page, undated. Written in Italian. Originally with Miscellaneous II. O lovely hand, that thy sweet self…, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 1 page, undated. Originally with Miscellaneous II. Plighted promise, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From Hanley II. Proserpina, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Written in Italian. Originally with Miscellaneous II. Proserpine, 2 signed handwritten manuscripts, 2 pages on 1 leaf, undated. One written in Italian. Sonnet on a sonnet, printed with signed handwritten inscription to Constantine A. Ionides, 27 April 1880. From Hanley II. The staff and scrip, handwritten manuscript/ early version with extensive revisions 3 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 The staff and scrip, handwritten manuscript/ early version with extensive revisions and workings, 16 pages, undated. Written with this: Friday, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 1 page, undated. The staff and scrip, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete with revisions, 4 pages on 3 leaves, undated. Stiff white, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 4 pages, undated. Drawing of "palette for flesh" on verso with colors indicated. Sudden light, handwritten manuscript in an unidentified hand, 1 page, undated. Removed from PR 5240 E770b HRC. From the Hanley Collection. Title page for Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, handwritten manuscript/ draft, 1 page, undated. 4 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 Works I: Angiolieri, Cecco, circa 1258-circa 1312. Never so bare and naked was Container church-stone…, translated by Rossetti, handwritten manuscript in Rossetti's hand, 1 1.4 (In) page, undated. From the Wrenn Collection. Angiolieri, Cecco, circa 1258-circa 1312. Va, rivisti San Gal privia che dichi…, Container translated by Rossetti, handwritten manuscript in Rossetti's hand, 1 page, undated. 1.4 (Iq) From the Wrenn Collection. Donati, Ferese. L'altra note mi vienne una gron tosse…., translated by Rossetti, Container handwritten manuscript in Rossetti's hand, 2 pages, undated. From the Wrenn 1.4 (Io-Ip) Collection. Hugo, Victor Marie, Comte, 1802-1885. Les burgraves: translated in part by Rossetti, Container handwritten manuscript in hand of Rossetti, 2 pages, undated. Entitled Two songs 1.4 (Id) from Victor Hugo's Burgraves. From the Wrenn Collection. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882: Antwerp and Bruges, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. From the Wrenn Container Collection. 1.4 (If) At the sun-rise in 1848, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From the Wrenn Container Collection. 1.4 (Ie) Barcarola, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Written in Italian. Title Container Serenata crossed through. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Ih) The cup of water, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. From the Wrenn Container Collection. 1.4 (Ib) Dawn on the night journey, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From the Container Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Ig) Do still thy best…, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. Intended for Container insertion in Rossetti's poem Soothsay. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Ir) The lady's lament, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. Title A lament Container crossed through. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Im) My sister's sleep/ Glory unto the newly born!..., handwritten manuscript in the Container hand of Christina Georgina Rossetti, 4 pages, undated. From the Wrenn 1.4 (Is) Collection. Notes for Rossetti's Early Italian poets, handwritten manuscript, 7 pages, undated. Container From the Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Ia) 5 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 On leaving a city, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From the Wrenn Container Collection. 1.4 (Ic) Container Possession, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Ij) A road in summer, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. From the Wrenn Container Collection. 1.4 (Il) The white ship, handwritten manuscript/ draft fragments with revisions, 1 page, Container undated. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.4 (Ik) 6 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 Letters: Note: for McMillan numbers cited below, see McMillan, Connie Beth. A Catalogue of the Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at The University of Texas at Austin (doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975). List of letters cited in Fredeman, William E. The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002) available in repository. Container ALS/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated; McMillan 936. 1.5 ALS/ draft to unidentified recipient, undated. Written in Italian; not in McMillan. 3 ALS to Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st baron, January 1857?, 27 July 1860, 15 December 1872; McMillan 907-909. ALS to Allen, George, undated (31 July 1860); McMillan 860. ALS to Bayley, Mrs., undated (June 1871?); McMillan 861. 7 ALS to Boyce, George Price, 1855-1868, undated; McMillan 853-859. One Container includes sketch of "Fanny's portrait composition." 1.6 ALI to Brown, Ford Madox, undated (1879?); McMillan 826. Container 1.5 ALI to Brown, Ford Madox, undated; not in McMillan. ALS to Brown, Ford Madox, undated (7 December 1873). Removed from Wp R735 843s. From the Wrenn Collection; McMillan 823. 3 ALS to Brown, Ford Madox, 27 August 1867, 1873, undated; McMillan 821-822, 828. 7 ALS to Brown, Ford Madox, 21 August no year, undated; McMillan 824-825, 827, 829-832. 2 ALS to Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, undated; McMillan 891-892. ALS to Burton, Richard, Captain, undated (22 December 1880); McMillan 862. ALS to Butts, Frederick, 5 August 1863; McMillan 863. Included with this: ALS Alexander Gilchrist to Thomas Butts, 23 November 1860. From Hanley II. Container ALS to Cameron, Julia Margaret, 29 April 1867; not in McMillan. 1.7 ALS to Chesneau, Ernest, 15 March 1882. Body of letter in the hand of Christina Rossetti; McMillan 893. 7 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Manuscript Collection MS-3624 ALS to Chesneau, Ernest Alfred, 23 March 1882. Body of letter in the hand of Christina Rossetti; McMillan 894. With this: AN by Charles Fairfax Murray. ALS to Cowper, Mrs., 17 July 1866; McMillan 905. ALS to Craig, Isa, October 1866; McMillan 865. ALS/ draft to Craig, Isa, October 1866; not in McMillan. On verso of ALS/ draft to A. Container Macmillan, October 1866. 3.5 Container 4 ALS, 2 ANS to Craven, Frederick, 1865-1874; McMillan 921-925, 932. 1.7 ALS to Dallas, Eneas Sweetland, 3 November 1864; McMillan 866. 3 ALS to Dalrymple, Sophia Pattle, Lady, 2 May 1861, undated; McMillan 910-912. ALS to Dalziel, Edward re illustration to Browning, undated (circa 6 March 1856); not in McMillan. ALS to Deschamps, Mr., undated (11 November 1872?); McMillan 867. 17 ALS, ALS/ incomplete to Dixon, Thomas, 1863-1879, undated; McMillan Container 770-788. 1.8 ALS to Edwards, Amelia B., 16 April 1878; McMillan 869. Container 1.7 5 ALS to Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1 November 1871, 6 August 1878, 3 February Container 1880, undated; McMillan 692, 696, 697, 700, 933. Photograph of Rossetti pasted on 1.9 letter of 1 November 1871. 36 ALS, 3 AL, ANS to Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1860-1881, undated; McMillan 686-691, 693-695, 698-699, 701-709, 711-715, 717-722, 724-727, 729-732. From Hanley II. 3 ALS to Fry, Clarence E., 15 March, 14 and 18 June 1876; McMillan 870; 2 items Container not in McMillan. 1.7 ALS to Furnivall, Frederick James, 5 May no year (1877); McMillan 896. ALS to Furnivall, Frederick James, 16 July 1858; McMillan 895. Removed from Wp R735 857s. From the Wrenn Collection. ALS to Gambart, Mrs., 13 April 1866; McMillan 871. ALS to Gillum, (William), Major, 6 November 1865; McMillan 872.