BIB_ID
323388
Accession number
MA 735.9
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1886 Jan. 7.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 17.9 cm
Notes
Herbert Mason was the nephew of Theodore Watts-Duncan, with whom Swinburne lived.
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 from "The Pines."
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 from "The Pines."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Describing the snowy weather, mentioning that the young Bertie [Mason] is laid up with a cold and cannot go out to throw snowballs or build snow forts; regretting that she did not receive his last letter; praising her translation of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.
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