BIB_ID
323216
Accession number
MA 459.11
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1885 May 25.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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 on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Remarking on the difficulty he has had writing and mentioning that "to work off this first sense of stupid bewilderment" he is writing a short account of his dear Father's and Master's work (i.e., Victor Hugo and perhaps Walter Savage Landor). Noting that "it is really rather an effort to write anything -- even such stuff as this -- even to so kind a friend as you" and asking her to burn the letter. With a postscript sending love from Watts.
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