Sister Helen (fair copy of lines 204-245, Lilly Library collection):
Rossetti Archive Document
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Additional Stanzas for “Sister Helen”
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1881
Type of Manuscript: fair copy manuscript
Collation: 2 pages
Note: The text is written on one side each of two sheets
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Lilly Library, Indiana University
Physical Description
Paper: unlined cream, 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.
Watermark: GURNEY
IVORY LAID
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Used with permission of Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
As DGR's note heading this text indicates, these are stanzas that he sent to the printer in May 1881 as Poems. A New Edition was going through the press.