BIB_ID
323380
Accession number
MA 735.7
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1884 Aug. 24.
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 final page(s) of the letter are missing.
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 final page(s) of the letter are missing.
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
Congratulating her on her improved health and trip to the sea; referencing his "New-Year Ode to Victor Hugo" to be published in October; mentioning English politics.
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