The Trees of the Garden (British Library fair copy)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: The Trees of the Garden
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1875?
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 1 page
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: British Library
Catalog Number: Ashley 1408
Physical Description
Paper: Unruled white laid paper
Watermark: 18[ ]
Dimensions of Document: 11.5 x 18 cm
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the British Library
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This text of the sonnet differs (in lines 13-14) from the received text deriving from the sonnet's first publication in the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets . The composition date is a surmise. The manuscript in the British Library is gathered with a letter from DGR to Watts Dunton that dates from mid-August 1881, subsequent to the publication of the Ballads and Sonnets volume.