The Staff and Scrip (fragmentary fair copy, corrected: Humanities Research
Center, U. of Texas)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: The Staff and Scrip
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1856
Type of Manuscript: partial manuscript copy, corrected
Collation: 3 leaves
Note: leaves numbered 7-9 at upper left
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas
Physical Description
Paper: 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. lined notebook paper
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: © Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas
at Austin.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a fair copy of the first portion of the original draft manuscript, which is also housed in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
The whole tenor of this manuscript fragment testifies to the radical process of revision that DGR was carrying out in 1856. Especially notable is the stanza on the final page, which shows DGR altering the original details of the recorded dream in order to write out the presence of the brother. The stanza also proves that this manuscript must originally have contained more material.