Item 114 - Letters from W. M. Rossetti to A. J. Munby

2 folded sheets, 2 envs.

Gift of A. J. Munby, 2 May 1910.

3 St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W. Two letters written after W. M. Rossetti read an article about Christina Rossetti in the 9 Jan. issue of The World in which she is said to have been stiff and ungenial and that “Arthur J.” and the author encountered her one night and that she was icy to them. In the first letter Rossetti speculates that the author is the watercolour painter Smallfield. Munby has written “No!” above the “Arthur J., who must be you” in the letter. In the second letter he has received Munby's reply and agrees that the J. is likely for the surname. He is pleased with the forthcoming volume of Christina's poems; is grateful to have news of his old friend Lushington.

Laid in envelopes pasted on to the inside back cover of Munby’s copy of Christina G. Rossetti’s Verses (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894), shelfmark Munby.d.356

Also in the first envelope, but a later addition: part of a catalogue of books and manuscripts sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 30 July 1895 with books and miscellaneous articles belonging to the late Christina G. Rossetti..