BIB_ID
323220
Accession number
MA 459.13
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1885] Dec. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
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.
Pre-stamped envelope with postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Lynn Linton / Queen Anne's Mansions / St. James's Park / SW."
Written from "The Pines."
Year of writing from postmarks.
Pre-stamped envelope with postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Lynn Linton / Queen Anne's Mansions / St. James's Park / SW."
Written from "The Pines."
Year of writing from postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Looking forward to her visit on Thursday and asking her to stay to tea; remarking that he would like to read her a poem (probably "Rondeaux Parisiens") that James Knowles has declined to accept for his magazine but that he thinks Walter Savage Landor would have liked.
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