BIB_ID
323376
Accession number
MA 735.6
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1883 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 17.8 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.
The first volume of La Légende des siècles was published in 1859. The fifth and final volume was published on 9 June 1883.
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
The first volume of La Légende des siècles was published in 1859. The fifth and final volume was published on 9 June 1883.
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Praising Victor Hugo's [fifth and final volume of La Légende des siècles]; remembering when he read the first volume in 1859 and asking her to tell Hugo that Swinburne admires him with his whole heart, soul, and spirit. With a postscript pointing out an error in La Légende des siècles.
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