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Box 2

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Contains 34 Results:

Letter with self-portrait,, [March 1893]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-37, L-42, p. 45
Scope and Contents note

Dated March 1893 in My Picture Gallery, pp. 36-37. Written on VM's departure for Paris and offering his serious opinion on her artwork, should she ever request it. Signed with a sad-looking self-portrait of himself with a palette and paints; this drawing is printed on p. 37 of My Picture Gallery.

Dates: [March 1893]

Letter in pencil with two self portraits,, [April 1893]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-38-39, L-43, p. 45
Scope and Contents note

Dated by VM. Written while ill with influenza and both self portraits are of him sick in bed. Described on p. 36 of My Picture Gallery.

Dates: [April 1893]

Letter with drawings,, [1893]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-40-42, L-44-45, p. 47
Scope and Contents note

Dated by VM. Written to her during her time in Paris. Discusses his low spirits, going to a play with "Mrs. Gaskell and Amy" and "Love in the Ruins."

Dates: [1893]

Letter with drawing of Olive,, [ca. Fall 1893]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-48, L-51, p. 57
Scope and Contents note

Dated by VM (or another party) as 1895 in album, but dated as 1893 in My Picture Gallery, p. 46. Drawing of Olive riding a rocking horse, and note about meeting her in Battersea Park. The drawing of Olive is printed on p. 45 of My Picture Gallery.

Dates: [ca. Fall 1893]

Pencil drawing of EBJ hanging from a beam,, [ca. April 1894]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-15, p. 19
Scope and Contents note

Caption by VM: I had missed an appt. This came by the next post." Caption by EBJ: "Farewell - may you be happy!"

Dates: [ca. April 1894]

Pencil drawing of EBJ's grave on "unconsecrated ground,", April 1894

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-16, p. 21
Scope and Contents note

On Rottingdean stationary with a fake funeral border painted in ink. With the heading by EBJ: "Unconsecrated ground, April 1894." Captioned by VM: "and this in the following post."

Dates: April 1894

Letter from EBJ with drawings and enclosure,, [1894]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-12-14, L-36, p. 17
Scope and Contents note

Dated by VM. Letter concerning a social visit. With a self-portrait of EBJ in an armchair and an imitation of a child's drawing, with the caption "Draw me pictures in your letter. I love pictures from this [image] upwards to Michael Angelo." A loose enclosure of a crest with the letter "C" on it and the note, "bless her."

Dates: [1894]

Letter with drawing,, [1894]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-43, L-46, p. 49
Scope and Contents note

Dated by VM. Drawing of men snoozing and reading papers at a club. Discusses destroyed "Love in the ruins" watercolor.

Dates: [1894]

Letter with self portrait and drawing,, [1894]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-44-45, L-47 p. 51
Scope and Contents note

Dated by VM. Drawing of Phil as an imp in the country and self-portrait of EBJ looking sorrowful in a corner.

Dates: [1894]

Ink drawing of the Last Supper tattooed on the back of Emma Frank, The American Tattooed Lady,, [1894]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: S-11, p. 15
Scope and Content From the Item: This collection comprises two bound albums containing letters and drawings sent to Violet Maxse by Edward Burne-Jones from approximately 1892-1897. The casual and often comic tone of letters cover a range of topics, including social events, Violet's first marriage to Lord Edward Cecil, the death of William Morris and Burne-Jones' artistic work.Several of the letters described in this finding aid are excerpted or quoted in Viscountess Milner's memoirMy...
Dates: [1894]