Letters to Anna Steele

Letters from William Michael Rossetti to the novelist Anna Steele [Mrs Anna Caroline Steele (d. 1914)], July 1894 - October 1911. Most of the letters were written from 3 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park, London, N.W., except numbers 15-17 (January-March 1896) written from Davos, and number 21 (February 1897) written from Sydney. Also included are a photograph of Mrs Steele; a letter to her from William Michael Rossetti's daughter Olivia; and a letter from William Michael Rossetti to My dear Madam, concerning photographs of works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (9 August 1888).

Purchased by the John Rylands Library at auction at Sotheby's on 15 December 1970 (Lot 733), with generous assistance from the Friends of the National Libaries and from Mr Simon Nowell-Smith. See note in the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 53 (1970-1), p. 248.