Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, September 11, 1871
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, September 11, 1871
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871 September 11
Type of Manuscript: letter
Person to Whom the Manuscript was Assigned: Thomas Gordon Hake
Note: The letter comprises four pages.
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: The British Library
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This letter contains some interesting comments about DGR's original intentions to build a complex refrain structure in “Rose Mary”. It contains verse for parts of two other poems as well, “Chimes” and “A Death-Parting”.