On a Handful of French Money

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Production Description

Document Title: On a Handful of French Money
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1879-1880
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 1 page

Provenance

Current Location: Lilly Library, University of Indiana

Physical Description

Paper: ruled laid white
Watermark: none
Dimensions of Document: 8 5/8 x 7 in
Other Physical Features: Paper from one of DGR's typical notebooks.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This copy of the poem must be fairly late. It is one of the manuscripts that came to the Lilly Library laid into a large paper copy of the 1881 Poems. A New Edition . In fact, this manuscript was printer's copy for the text that was printed in the first proof for Signature Y of the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets .

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Lilly Library, University of Indiana