Limerick: Nine Tailors
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Limerick: Nine Tailors
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1869?
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 1 page
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton University Library
Physical Description
Paper: white notebook
Watermark: COUPER
1869
Other Physical Features: The page is a heavy paper of the kind that comes at the ends of DGR's
typical notebooks.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is apparently the only surviving manuscript of the limerick and the other brief manuscript on the page. The date is conjectured from the 1869 watermark, and it is apparent that the document is either the front or the end leaf from one of DGR's typical notebooks.