The One Hope (fair copy holograph, Library of Congress)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: The One Hope
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1870 March
Type of Manuscript: holograph fair copy
Note: The sonnet is scripted on the verso of an undated note to Swinburne;
the note was written in March 1870.
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Library of Congress
Catalog Number: MR279
Note: The sonnet is in a bound volume of manuscripts, mostly sonnets,
gold-stamped “Dante Gabriel Rossetti/A Series
of/Holograph Manuscripts/1849-1880”.
Physical Description
Cover: 12 Sonnets
By
Dante G. Rossetti
All from The House
of Life
and other sonnets by D. G. R.
Paper: copied on a small sheet of unlined paper: measurements, 4 7/16 x 7 inches
Watermark: Unwatermarked
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Reproduced with permission of the Library of Congress.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This manuscript was sent in a note to Swinburne in late February or early March 1870. DGR copied the text on the verso of the letter.