Limerick: Nine Tailors

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Production Description

Document Title: Limerick: Nine Tailors
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1869?
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 1 page
Scribe: DGR

Provenance

Current Location: Princeton University Library

Physical Description

Paper: white notebook
Watermark: COUPER

1869
Other Physical Features: The page is a heavy paper of the kind that comes at the ends of DGR's typical notebooks.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is apparently the only surviving manuscript of the limerick and the other brief manuscript on the page. The date is conjectured from the 1869 watermark, and it is apparent that the document is either the front or the end leaf from one of DGR's typical notebooks.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 25-1850.prin.rad.xml
Copyright: Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections