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Lot 154

ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL)

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

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ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL)

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Temple, thanking her for her bounty: "You may be sure that I was not aware of your being here today till you had left, or I should have taken care to thank you by word of mouth for the sweets of all kinds you left for the household to benefit by"; he also hopes that Mr Temple has got over his cold, adding: "Everything is getting so green that it seems altogether restorative, yet the weather is changeable & trying still", 2 pages, on mourning paper, integral blank, 8vo, "Wednesday"

Footnotes

Rossetti's correspondent may be Georgina Cowper-Temple of Broadlands, with whom Rossetti stayed in the summer of 1876 while working on his predella for Dante's Dream; in a letter to his mother written during this stay he refers to her as 'Mrs Temple' rather than the style 'Cowper-Temple' more usually adopted (see his letter of 24 August 1876 from Broadlands in which he tells his mother that 'Mrs Temple is simply an angel on earth', in Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family Letters). She was married to William Francis Cowper-Temple, later first Baron Mount-Temple, natural son of Lord Palmerston, from whom he inherited Broadlands. Both husband and wife were religious enthusiasts, holding annual gatherings at Broadlands. Georgina was to present Rossetti's Beata Beatrix to the National Gallery in memory of her husband. A vegetarian and total abstainer herself, she was solicitous of the wayward Rossetti's health.

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