BIB_ID
323319
Accession number
MA 735.2
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1883] July 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to Russian-French poet Tola Dorian. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written on stationery embossed "Leigh House, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts."
Year of writing from Lang.
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written on stationery embossed "Leigh House, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts."
Year of writing from Lang.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Noting that he has received the proofs [for his introduction to her French translation of Shelley's Cenci], but remarking that he cannot make corrections without also having the manuscript and asking her to send it. Mentioning that there are several minor mistakes and discussing his reasons for accepting the project.
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