The Blessed Damozel (1872 autograph MS fragment)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1872 (circa)
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton University Library
Catalog Number: AM21395
Note: The manuscript's shelf mark is CO 185.
Physical Description
Other Physical Features: one small sheet, 17x10.8cm. On the verso are several bibliographical
notes on the source of a quotation about Punchinello.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Used with permission of Princeton University. From the Princeton
University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. All rights
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Princeton University Library.
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Scholarly Commentary
Textual History: Composition
This fragment was sent by DGR to his publisher F. S. Ellis in 1872 for inclusion in the sixth edition of DGR's Poems , first issued in 1870. The 1873 Tauchnitz Edition of the same book also carried this text, which is a revision of the stanza as it had been previously printed.
The manuscript has two notes by other hands—one at the top, by Ellis, the other below the text in an unknown hand authenticating the manuscript as DGR's.