BIB_ID
118176
Accession number
MA 735.1
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 13.9 cm
Notes
18 lines.
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to Russian-French poet Tola Dorian. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to Russian-French poet Tola Dorian. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Mrs. Ford Maddox Hueffer in 1913.
Summary
A Christmas poem to "young Fordy Heuffer" (later Ford Madox Ford), written on the interior of a Christmas card, the cover of which is decorated with an image of Father Christmas in a red mantle, surrounded by holly leaves above the caption "A happy Christmas." The image is set within a larger piece of paper lace trim.
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