BIB_ID
323383
Accession number
MA 735.8
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1885] Apr. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 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.
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."
Year of writing from Lang.
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."
Year of writing from Lang.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Remarking on the break in their correspondence; praising [Victor Hugo] and thanking her for a letter to which he appended some lines. Hoping to send her his play Marino Faliero soon and discussing some anticipated criticisms of the fifth act. Mentioning Leconte's translation of Euripides.
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