BIB_ID
323285
Accession number
MA 459.18
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1892 Nov. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1908.
Description
1 item (3 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 from "The Pines."
Written from "The Pines."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the dealer Sotheran in 1908.
Summary
Concerning the scandal surrounding Lady Burton (and the recent death and reburial of her husband, and the rumor that she burned his translation of The Scented Garden); remarking that Swinburne cannot "hit her harder or straighter" than he did in his Elegy to Burton, and suggesting that Linton "expose and chastise her." Assuring her that it would not be like "two cats spitting," but rather "like one noble specimen of that noblest and loveliest of creatures springing and setting her paw ... on a furtive though audacious rat."
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