Record ID:
323375
Accession number:
MA 735.5
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (4 p.); 18 cm
Notes:
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.
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.
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.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
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