BIB_ID
323112
Accession number
MA 459.2
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1881 Jan. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
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 from "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Written from "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Concerning his dedication of some lines to her; regretting that his publisher did not send her a printed copy sooner, but reminding her that he copied out the verses in a previous letter (see MA 459.1). Discussing their literary relationship, noting that "There is hardly anything ... better in life than fellowship in love and reverence;" praising her work as "the most heroic in temper since the Brontës, and of so much wider intelligence than theirs." Asking for her opinion of James Thomson's poetry, remarking that he is a "man of genius" but that "there is a vein of what can only be called vulgarity" in his work, of which Walter Savage Landor would not have approved. With a postscript asking when she will return to England, as he wishes to introduce his oldest friend John Nichol to her.
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