BIB_ID
323375
Accession number
MA 735.5
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1881 June?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 18 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.
Possible date of writing from Lang.
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written from "The Pines, Putney Hill, London S.W."
Possible date of writing from Lang.
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written from "The Pines, Putney Hill, London S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Thanking her for sending Victor Hugo's new book (probably Vol. 13 of Oeuvres complètes de Victor Hugo); mentioning that he is working on an ode ("The Statue of Victor Hugo") and asking her to forward it to Hugo if she thinks it proper.
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