Letter to William Bell Scott, February 1857, manuscript
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Letter to William Bell Scott, February 1857
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1857 February
Type of Manuscript: letter
Person to Whom the Manuscript was Assigned: William Bell Scott
Note: the letter is 8 pages long
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton University Library
Catalog Number: 23351
Note: The letter is in box 9, folder 6 of the Troxell Collection.
Physical Description
Other Physical Features: 4 leaves, 17.6 x 22.5cm
Bibliography
- Fredeman,
Correspondence, 57.12
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
page images | transcript
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The letter to Scott contains a text of DGR's epigram “Address to the D—l (Dalziel brothers)”.
Reception History
WMR emended the final line in his Collected Works of 1911, making the dramatic character of the stage direction more obvious. In doing so, however, WMR assigned the laughter to the Dalziel brothers, whereas the present source manuscript leaves the source ambiguous; DGR might as easily have been laughing as the Dalziels.