Record ID:
323477
Accession number:
MA 735.10
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (4 p.); 17.9 cm
Notes:
Written from "The Pines, Putney Hill S.W."
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
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.
Summary:
Concerning their friendship; discussing "sa Majesté Herbert;" looking forward to her book of poems; noting that the two best books on Shelley are the biography of W.M. Rossetti and the memoirs of Trelawny.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
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