Rossetti Archive Manuscript Correspondence

Although DGR's correspondence is not as lively and spontaneous as Swinburne's wonderful letters, it is equally and in certain respects more important than Swinburne's as an insight into the life and times of the period. It is of course an invaluable resource for tracking DGR's literary and artistic works.

In preparing the Rossetti Archive we have been able cite and quote from the texts of DGR's letters as published in W. E. Fredeman's ongoing (and authoritative) edition of DGR's correspondence, The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which began to appear in 2002 and is currently through its seventh volume (up to the year 1877). One further volume remains to be published. In the cases where these letters were not yet in print, we have had access to the transcripts that Professor Fredeman had prepared for his edition. These transcripts have been invaluable to us since the Archive was in development well before the initial publication of Fredeman's edition, and after it began to appear in a series of separately issued volumes, before the actual publication of many relevant letters.

In certain cases, however, we have had to prepare texts of the letters independently from their appearance in Fredeman's authoritative edition. The Rossetti Archive has full texts for about forty such files. We have independently edited these letters for the Archive because reference is necessary to all of the material in these letters, and not just to some selected passage.

In addition, all of the letters published in WMR's valuable 1895 collection of Family Letters are available in this Archive.

It is hoped that, in the future, the entirety of Fredeman's edition will be linked to The Rossetti Archive.

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Page Images Available for Letter from William Bell Scott to unknown correspondent, August 1869



Letter from William Bell Scott to unknown correspondent, August 1869

1869 August

Sister, first shake we off the dust we have
Page Images Available for Letter to Barbara Bodichon, 15 March 1870



Letter to Barbara Bodichon, 15 March 1870

1870 March 15

Why sink those black drops in that golden wine,
Page Images Available for Letter to Christina Rossetti, 8 November 1853



Letter to Christina Rossetti, 8 November 1853

1853 November 8

Getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap,
Page Images Available for Letter to Edward Burne-Jones, 13 March 1870



Letter to Edward Burne-Jones, 13 March 1870

1870 March 13

Why sink those black drops in that golden wine
Page Images Available for Letter to Ford Madox Brown, 12 October 1868



Letter to Ford Madox Brown, 12 October 1868

1868 October 12
Page Images Available for Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 20 July 1867



Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 20 July 1867

1867 July 20

Andromeda, by Perseus saved and wed,
Page Images Available for Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 5 Sptember 1848



Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 5 Sptember 1848

1848 September 5

Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
Page Images Available for Letter to Frederick Shields, 21 May 1880



Letter to Frederick Shields, 21 May 1880

1880 May 21

This is the place. Even here the dauntless soul,
Page Images Available for Letter to Frederick Stephens, 2 February 1881



Letter to Frederick Stephens, 2 February 1881

1881 February 2

Deh quando tu sarai tornato al mondo
Page Images Available for Letter to Frederick Stephens, ca. 10 August 1875



Letter to Frederick Stephens, ca. 10 August 1875

1875 August 10

Afar away the light that brings cold cheer
Page Images Available for Letter to Hall Caine, 27 July 1880



Letter to Hall Caine, 27 July 1880

1880 July 27

His Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove
Page Images Available for Letter to James Collinson, 25 October 1849



Letter to James Collinson, 25 October 1849

1849 October 25

Ah yes, exactly so: but when a man
Page Images Available for Letter to James Smetham, August 10, 1868



Letter to James Smetham, August 10, 1868

1868 August 10

Today Death seems to me an infant child
Page Images Available for Letter to Jane Morris, 11 September 1869



Letter to Jane Morris, 11 September 1869

1869 September 11

Oh! how the family affections combat
Page Images Available for Letter to Jane Morris, 3 September 1880



Letter to Jane Morris, 3 September 1880

1880 September 3

The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore
Page Images Available for Letter to Leigh Hunt, 1847



Letter to Leigh Hunt, 1847

1847 December?
Page Images Available for Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 18 August 1871



Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 18 August 1871

1871 August 18

Tonight this sunset spreads two golden wings
Page Images Available for Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 23 December 1880



Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 23 December 1880

1880 December 23

Turn not the prophet's page, O Son! He knew
Page Images Available for Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, 2 September 1871



Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, 2 September 1871

1871 September 2

And what can our birthright be?
Page Images Available for Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, September 11, 1871



Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, September 11, 1871

1871 September 11

Water-willow and wellaway,
Page Images Available for Letter to Thomas Hake 22 Sept 1871



Letter to Thomas Hake 22 Sept 1871

1871 September 22

A swoon that breaks is the whelming wave
Page Images Available for Letter to William Allingham, 23 January 1855, manuscript



Letter to William Allingham, 23 January 1855, manuscript

1855 January 23

The gloom which breathes upon me with these airs
Page Images Available for Letter to William Allingham, 23 July 1854, manuscript



Letter to William Allingham, 23 July 1854, manuscript

1854 July 21

Getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap
Page Images Available for Letter to William Allingham, August 1854, manuscript



Letter to William Allingham, August 1854, manuscript

1854 August 1?

“So in that soul—a mindful brotherhood,—
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, 13 July 1853



Letter to William Bell Scott, 13 July 1853

1853 July 13

I plucked a honeysuckle, where
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, 22 May 1873



Letter to William Bell Scott, 22 May 1873

1873 May 22

Soft-littered is the new-year's lambing-fold:
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, February 13, 1855



Letter to William Bell Scott, February 13, 1855

1855 February 13

With fraud the church, the law, the camp, are rife:
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, February 1857, manuscript



Letter to William Bell Scott, February 1857, manuscript

1857 February

O woodman, spare that block,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1853, manuscript



Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1853, manuscript

1853 July

This tree here fall'n, no common birth or death
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1869, manuscript



Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1869, manuscript

1869 (circa July)

Some ladies love the jewels in Love's zone,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, September 15, 1871



Letter to William Bell Scott, September 15, 1871

1871 September 15

Enter Poet, moored in a punt,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Holman Hunt, January 30, 1855



Letter to William Holman Hunt, January 30, 1855

1855 January 23

The gloom which breathes upon me with these airs
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 September 1871



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 September 1871

1871 September 10

“And what must our birthright be?
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 18 October 1849



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 18 October 1849

1849 October 18

Non noi pittori! God of Nature's truth,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 27-29 September 1849



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 27-29 September 1849

1849 September 27-29

A constant keeping past of shaken trees,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 8 October 1849



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 8 October 1849

1849 October 8

“And prayed of Christ (he knowing how it was) That, if this thing were sinful unto death, He would himself be first to throw the stone. So then I entered, &c.”