BIB_ID
118060
Accession number
MA 735.1-16
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1881-1893.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 v. (16 items), bound ; 32.7 cm
Notes
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Collection consists of 15 autograph letters from A. C. Swinburne to Tola Dorian. Letters discuss their work and publications and frequently mention the "Maître" [i.e., Victor Hugo]. Collection also contains an autograph poem "Christmas to Fordy" [a young Ford Madox Ford].
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