BIB_ID
323479
Accession number
MA 735.11
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1888] Mar. 12.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 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
Thanking her for the manuscript and praising her translation of his Locrine. Regretting to hear that she has been ill with influenza.
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