BIB_ID
323149
Accession number
MA 459.10
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1881 Mar. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Mourning envelope (bound following MA 459.18) with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Lynn Linton / hotel S. Olivia / Palermo / Sicily."
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 mourning paper from "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 mourning paper from "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Referencing her praise of "the poem laid at your feet before the grave of our dear great friend" [Walter Savage Landor] and asking after her health. Reporting that he is writing an entry on Landor for the Encyclopedia Britannica and noting that he has completed an entry on John Keats and will write one on Marlowe as well; referring to himself as "a minor English Diderot." Suggesting she read Watts's review of Carlyle's Reminiscences in the Athenaeum. Referencing the poor reviews of his recent poems, noting that he is disappointed by the failure of his comic verse and by the detection of its anonymous authorship, "which secret I had (to confess the truth) counted for a little quiet amusement in case of the little venture proving other than the hopeless fiasco I am told it is." Asking for her opinion of William Black's "Sunrise." Saying that one day he will for her opinion of his own attempts at novel-writing.
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