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Lot 152

ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)

Two autograph cheques signed ("Christina G. Rossetti"), the first for £18-8s-2d drawn on the London & Westminster Bank in favour of Messrs Hebblethwaite; the second for £91-0-0 in favour of the National Freehold Land Society, 2 pages, printed with manuscript insertions, embossed revenue stamps, date-perforations etc., unobtrusive pen-stroke cancellations through signature, endorsed, the second folded at end and tipped into a ballpoint-scared copy of her Verses, 1896, oblong 8vo, London, 8 November 1893 and 9 July 1894

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The National Freehold Land Society had been founded by Richard Cobden, John Bright and others to secure the vote for those without land or, as Cobden put it, 'to enable individuals, by means of small monthly subscriptions, to accumulate a fund by which they should be enabled, in the best and cheapest way, to possess themselves of the county franchise' (Times, 27 November 1849). From it grew the present-day property British Land and Abbey National (Santander). When she wrote the second cheque Christina Rossetti was already seriously ill with the cancer that was to kill her that December, so it may have issued as part of a settlement of her affairs.

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