BIB_ID
323240
Accession number
MA 459.15
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1889 Feb. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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
Responding that he "cannot undertake to contribute to any new publication, having already as many vents as I want for my literary energies." Freely expressing his surprise at seeing her "name among theirs who express sympathy with that most unutterable cur, craven, and mountebank, the dastardly and indecent miscreant [William] O'Brien." Noting that he would have been as surprised to see Walter Savage Landor supporting Ferdinand, King of Spain, or Ferdinand, King of Naples. Speaking vehemently agains the Irish nationlist leader. With a postscript thanking her for arranging for Swinburne to meet Landor's grandson.
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