Scope and Contents The Rossetti collection consists of approximately 80 items dating from 1865 to 1900 including letters written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti between 1865 and 186. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by William Rossetti between 1897 and 1899 to Francis W. Burgess, a London bookseller, and Burgess’s widow dating from 1899 to 1900. This correspondence concerns the sale of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti's works and touches on other topics, such as pirate editions of Gabriel's books...