BIB_ID
323504
Accession number
MA 735.14
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1888 July 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 17.7 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 from "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Tola Dorian was the pen name of Russian-French writer and translator Kapitolina Sergueïevna Mestcherskaïa.
Written from "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Mentioning M.G. Mourey and remarking on the genius of translators; thanking her on Watt's behalf for a photograph and praising her; noting that his piece "The Armada" was recently published in the Fortnightly Review.
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