BIB_ID
323106
Accession number
MA 459.1
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1880 May 25.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope (bound following MA 459.18) with postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Lynn Linton / Hayker House / 238 Marleybone Road / N.W." Part of the postmark has been torn away, but it is likely that this envelope enclosed the letter.
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to English writer Elizabeth Lynn Linton. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to English writer Elizabeth Lynn Linton. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Regretting that she is leaving England just as he began to hope that they would meet again; wishing that she had visited with Mrs. Burton, and describing their afternoon. Thanking her for her approbation of his "sonnet against 'the soft Dean'" (i.e., Pope's Moral Essay IV"). Referencing Walter Savage Landor's dismal view of asking for permission to dedicate a work to someone, but nonetheless addressing some verses to her, noting that they form part of the dedication of a larger poem to Landor, which he has been working on for five years and which is over 500 lines long. Copying the lines "A.C.S. to E.L.L." (16 ll., first line "Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate").
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