Autograph letter signed : London, to [Tola Dorian], [1888] Mar. 12.

Record ID: 
323479
Accession number: 
MA 735.11
Author: 
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.); 18 cm
Notes: 

Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill S.W."
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Year of writing from Lang.
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: 

Thanking her for the manuscript and praising her translation of his Locrine. Regretting to hear that she has been ill with influenza.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.