15929639920001414148641000Standard Recordobject-110001205175493541722117549247110001754935413106adlibfitz-onlineadlib-object-110001205https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/1100012050d3adb4d-bf4e-3eec-a9a9-7b9fcfa290269personreferenceagent-153239adlib-agent-153239d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5becMurray, Charles Fairfaxcontent description76 folios:
ff. 1-2, ‘Advertisement’ prefixed to the ‘Poems’ of 1881.
ff. 3-5 The Portrait, An earlier version than that on ff.6-9.
ff. 6-9 The Portrait, A later version than the preceding version but earlier than the published one
ff. 10-11 The Sea-limits
ff. 12-18r Love’s Nocturn, here entitled “Nocturn”. F.14 has a stanza with a note in C.F. Murray’s hand by it to the effect that it is unpublished. On f.15 is a stanza inserted in C.F. Murray’s hand.
f.18v Bridal Birth, Sonnet II of ‘The House of Life’. An earlier draft of this sonnet is on f.5r of the volume labelled ‘The House of Life Sonnets’. An alternative version of lines 12&13, cancelled, is at the foot of the page.
f.19 Penumbra
f.20-23 Troy Town
f.24r The Woodspurge
f.25r A Young Fir-wood
f.26r First Love Remembered, here entitled “First Love”
f.27r Even So
f.28r Song and Music, here entitled “A Song and Music”
f.29r An Old Song Ended
ff. 30-31r To Mary in Summer
f.31v Two four-line stanzas with the beginning of three more stanzas, all cancelled.
f.32r A Little While
f.33r Love-Lily
f.34r A New- Year’s Burden. Earlier version that following draft.
ff. 35-36r A New-Year’s Burden. This corrected draft corresponds with the published version.
f.36r-37r Plighted Promise, here entitled “The Moon-Star”
ff. 37r-39r The Song of the Bower
f.39v Disio, sonnet in Italian, cancelled, dated “Margo /68” This is sonnet I of “Disio e Compenso, Due Sonnetti”. On f.56v of the volume labelled “The House of Life Sonnets” is a cancelled draft of Compenso.
ff. 40-48, Sister Helen
f.49r Beauty and the Bird
f.50r A Match with the Moon
f.51r The Honeysuckle
ff. 52-53 John of Tours, here entitled “John of Howth”
ff. 54-55, My Father’s Close
f.56r Beauty, I & II, here entitled “One Girl”
f.57r At Last, sonnet with note in the hand of C.F. Murray that it is “unpublished”
f.58r On Refusal of Aid between Nations, here entitled “Man and Men”
f.59r Tiber, Nile and Thames, here with title in ink “Cleopatra’s Needle in London” crossed out in pencil and “Antonian Needles” written also in pencil.
f.60r The Girlhood of the Virgin Mary, for a picture I.
f.61r The Girlhood of the Virgin Mary, for a picture II.
f.61v The beginning of a letter, with an address, and a pen ink sketch of a man’s hand. At the head of the sheet is a pencil note by W. M. Rossetti, “By Gabriel – Sonnet & to his first picture, 1848-9, Girlhood of Mary Virgin.”
f.62r The Passover in the Holy Family – for a drawing. The sub-title reads here “For a design”.
f.63 Michael Scott’s Wooing, for a drawing. The reverse has the opening line of the poem written on it.
f.64 Frammetta, for a picture. Signed with his initials “D.G.R” at the foot
f.65 For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione, in the Louvre.
f.66 William Blake
f.67 Francesca da Rimini, translation from Dante.
ff.68-70 Three leaves of French and English prose – notes on the story of Lancelot & Guinevere.
ff.71-72 Fragment of Rose Mary, Part II
ff.73-76 The Stream’s Secret. The fragments on f.73v are trial lines from this poem; f.74r Stillborn Love, Sonnet LV from ‘The House of Life’. A later version is of f.64r of the volume labelled ‘The House of Life Sonnets’ and one later still on f.101v of the same volume.
f.74r The Orchard-Pit, the first two lines, the second one incomplete, the only representation of this poem in this collection.
f.74v The opening three lines of ‘God’s Graal’ in the upper left-hand corner.Rossetti/2/51accession numberRossetti/2/5110001205priref110001205urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001205https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001205referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceagent-117796adlib-agent-11779692ff435c-15fb-3c51-bb90-165f0b141a61Rossetti, Dante Gabriel1 volumePoems and Sonnets
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