In the following Index to the Rossetti MS., the sketches,
poems, and prose contents are given in the order in which
they occur in the volume; inverted pieces, written from the
reversed end, are marked by an asterisk. To follow
roughly Blake's own order of writing the poems enumerated,
the Index should be read backwards page by page, from
p. 115 to p. 98, and continued straightforwardly from p. 3 to
the same point. Italics indicate sketches or prose. For
prose passages, of which only the few first or last words are
quoted in this Index, reference may be made to Gilchrist
(vol. ii) or to Ellis and Yeats (vol. ii. pp. 383-403).
The following contractions are used: — S.E., Sougs of Experience; MS. Book, Rossetti Manuscript (followed by
number of poem in the present edition); Advt., Advertisement to Blake's Canterbury Pilgrims from Chancer, containing anecdotes of Artists (apparently intended as Blake's own title for piece which Rossetti and others call 'Public
Address'); Cat. 1810, For the year 1810. Additions to Blake s Catalogue of Pictures, &c. ; WMR., W. M. Ros-
setti's 'Annotated Lists of Blake's Paintings, Drawings, and
Engravings,' List 2, no. 25 (Gilchrist's Life, ii. pp. 242-243).
INDEX TO 'THE ROSSETTI MS.'
| p. 1. | Prose. — If men of weak capacities . . . without which the art is lost. [Advt.] |
| p. 2. | Sketch (pencil). — Daphne. |
| My spectre continued (stanzas 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, *1, *2, and *3). [MS. Book xxxvii.] | |
| p. 3. | My spectre around me night & day. [MS. Book xxxvii.] |
| p. 4. | Title-page. — Ideas of Good & Evil. |
| Sketch (pencil). — A young woman dressing. | |
| When a man has married a wife. [MS. Book xxxviii.] | |
| p. 5. | When Klopstock England defied. [MS. Book xxxix.] |
| p. 6. | Sketch (pen and ink) [see WMR (a)].
On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary & Johanna Southcott. [MS. Book xl.] |
| p. 7. | Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau. [MS. Book xli.] |
| p. 8. | Sketch. |
| p. 9. | Sketch (sepia). |
| p. 10. | Note. — Tuesday Jan' 20, 1807, between Two & seven in the Evening Despair. |
| Note. — I say I shan't live five years. And if I live one it will be
a Wonder. June 1793. | |
| Memoranda. — To engrave on pewter. To woodcut on pewter. To engrave on copper. [See Gil. ii. 158.] |
