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ARTISTS & WRITERS – ROSSETTI, RUSKIN, FORSTER & PRE-RAPHAELITES Collection of autograph le...
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ARTISTS & WRITERS – ROSSETTI, RUSKIN, FORSTER & PRE-RAPHAELITES Collection of autograph letters, signed, from various nineteenth-century artists and writers, many to members of the Seeley and Phillott families, including: Two autograph letters signed ('Christina G. Rossetti'), the first 'Dear Madam' thanking for books, the second to Mary Cayley agreeing to a visit ('...I am an established invalid now and do not get into my sitting room much before 11 o'clock...'), 3 pages, 8vo, Torrington Square, 30 November 1892 & 30 March 1894; autograph letter signed ('D.G. Rossetti') to Miss Phillott, sending photographs of his work ('...very imperfect... The head studies are of course from nature...'), 2 pages on a bifolium, 8vo, Cheyne Walk, [undated], with envelope; with autograph letter signed ('D.G.R.') to 'My dear Brown' arranging to meet, one page, 8vo, 'Tuesday'; autograph letter signed ('J. Ruskin') to Philip Hamerton, refusing an invitation ('...I know nothing of the ways of the public mind and I am myself now engaged in work from which I can spare no available moment...'), one page on lined paper, 8vo, Denmark Hill, 1 March [18]69; autograph quotation signed ('William Morris'), '...So, oft in the moonlit minster our fathers may you see/ By the side of the ancient mothers await the dawn to be...', one page, oblong 8vo, Kelmscott, 7 October 1879; other artists including May Morris (regarding lessons for Miss Faulkner's servant, 1 February 1885); John Everett Millais (to Colvin on the whereabouts of his picture Vale of Rest); Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones; Alfred Hunt; John Brett; Emilia Dilke (to Evelyn de Morgan); George Cruikshank; Emily Virtue Jebb (asking Miss Phillott to dine with '...artist friends Mr Rossetti Mr Morris & others...'); William Holman Hunt (cut signature), Walter Crane (signed fragment); Marie Stillman; Edward Hughes Autograph letter signed ('E.M. Forster') to Miss Seeley, declining an invitation ('...so grieved about Dr Thompson's illness...'), one page on a bifolium, 8vo, West Hackhurst, 8 January [19]12, with envelope; other writers including Rudyard Kipling (to Lady Seeley, '...with as much deliberate evil at the heart of Empire there it little hope to remedy evil abroad...', 20 January 1912, with envelope); Matthew Arnold; Jean Ingelow; Charles Reade; Edmund Gosse; A.C. Benson; Gertrude Jekyll; a lock of Princess Charlotte's hair, etc.; together with eight small carte-de-viste by Downey, Elliott & Fry & others (Prince Albert (2), D.G. Rossetti, Robert Browning, Edward VII on his marriage, Princess Alexandra on her marriage, Mary of Teck, The Princess Alice) (small collection) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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ARTISTS & WRITERS – ROSSETTI, RUSKIN, FORSTER & PRE-RAPHAELITES Collection of autograph letters, signed, from various nineteenth-century artists and writers, many to members of the Seeley and Phillott families, including: Two autograph letters signed ('Christina G. Rossetti'), the first 'Dear Madam' thanking for books, the second to Mary Cayley agreeing to a visit ('...I am an established invalid now and do not get into my sitting room much before 11 o'clock...'), 3 pages, 8vo, Torrington Square, 30 November 1892 & 30 March 1894; autograph letter signed ('D.G. Rossetti') to Miss Phillott, sending photographs of his work ('...very imperfect... The head studies are of course from nature...'), 2 pages on a bifolium, 8vo, Cheyne Walk, [undated], with envelope; with autograph letter signed ('D.G.R.') to 'My dear Brown' arranging to meet, one page, 8vo, 'Tuesday'; autograph letter signed ('J. Ruskin') to Philip Hamerton, refusing an invitation ('...I know nothing of the ways of the public mind and I am myself now engaged in work from which I can spare no available moment...'), one page on lined paper, 8vo, Denmark Hill, 1 March [18]69; autograph quotation signed ('William Morris'), '...So, oft in the moonlit minster our fathers may you see/ By the side of the ancient mothers await the dawn to be...', one page, oblong 8vo, Kelmscott, 7 October 1879; other artists including May Morris (regarding lessons for Miss Faulkner's servant, 1 February 1885); John Everett Millais (to Colvin on the whereabouts of his picture Vale of Rest); Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones; Alfred Hunt; John Brett; Emilia Dilke (to Evelyn de Morgan); George Cruikshank; Emily Virtue Jebb (asking Miss Phillott to dine with '...artist friends Mr Rossetti Mr Morris & others...'); William Holman Hunt (cut signature), Walter Crane (signed fragment); Marie Stillman; Edward Hughes Autograph letter signed ('E.M. Forster') to Miss Seeley, declining an invitation ('...so grieved about Dr Thompson's illness...'), one page on a bifolium, 8vo, West Hackhurst, 8 January [19]12, with envelope; other writers including Rudyard Kipling (to Lady Seeley, '...with as much deliberate evil at the heart of Empire there it little hope to remedy evil abroad...', 20 January 1912, with envelope); Matthew Arnold; Jean Ingelow; Charles Reade; Edmund Gosse; A.C. Benson; Gertrude Jekyll; a lock of Princess Charlotte's hair, etc.; together with eight small carte-de-viste by Downey, Elliott & Fry & others (Prince Albert (2), D.G. Rossetti, Robert Browning, Edward VII on his marriage, Princess Alexandra on her marriage, Mary of Teck, The Princess Alice) (small collection) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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