Notebook Pages (Note Book IV, Duke Library)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871, 1880
Collation: 89 pages plus one half sheet (page [85a]) cut from the page that
followed received page [84].
Note: Each page is numbered in square brackets in the upper right or left
corner by WMR. Page stubs indicate that eleven leaves were cut away from
the notebook after page [72]
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Duke University Library
Catalog Number: Writings: XXVIII. Note Book IV
Physical Description
Cover: Dark blue morocco
Note on binding: slip pasted inside front cover indicating the notebook was sold by
Partridge and Cooper
Paper: lined white
Watermark: COUPER 1869
Dimensions of Document: 8 9/16 x 7 in
Bibliography
- Baum, ed.,
Manuscripts in the Duke University Library, 41-49, 78-117.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images used with permission of the Duke University Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
All of the pages gathered here under the heading “Note Book IV” are in fact from the same original notebook, and some of the pages are still bound together (pages [3]-[18]). From several indications, especially the red “X” marks that appear from time to time in the first 52 pages and from the fragment of the text of “The White Ship” (page [56]), it is clear that DGR used the notebook around 1880. But as WMR's note on page [6] suggests, the notebook was originally used around 1871.
Printing History
This notebook saw first publication in Baum's Rossetti Manuscripts: Unpublished Verse and Prose (1931). This new edition corrects the omissions found in Baum's transcription.