BIB_ID
118062
Accession number
MA 459.1-24
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1874-1892.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 v. (24 items), bound ; 26.3 cm
Notes
The letters to Knight and Nichol were added to this volume from the Knight Collection.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Collection includes 18 letters to English writer Eliza Lynn Linton (dated 1874, and 1880-1892) on literary matters, mutual friends, etc., especially Walter Savage Landor, and with frequent mentions of Theodore Watts-Duncan. One letter contains dedicatory verses. Collection also includes 1 letter to John Nichol and 5 letters to W.A. Knight (dated 1894-1897), concerning Knight's biography of Nichol. Letters in the collection have been described separately in 24 individual catalog records; see related records for more information.
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