BIB_ID
118059
Accession number
MA 792.1-13
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1873-1886.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 v. (12 items), bound ; 32.7 cm
Provenance
Sold by Mrs. Collins to Swinburne's biographer Thomas J. Wise; sold by Wise to Stevens & Brown of London, which firm sold them to J. Pearson & Co.; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Collection consists of 12 autograph letters signed from A. C. Swinburne to the literary critic John Churton Collins. Letters discuss Collins's work on Cyril Tourneur and Swinburne's poetry and work on Shakespeare, etc. Collection also contains a copy of Thomas J. Wise, ed., Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne to John Churton Collins, 1873-1886 (London: Printed for private circulation, 1910). Items in the collection have been described individually in 13 separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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