Record ID:
323505
Accession number:
MA 735.15
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p.); 17.9 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.
Victor Hugo became ill on May 15 with a severe cold that developed into pneumonia; he died on May 22, 1885.
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 news [of Victor Hugo's grave illness] and expressing his devotion to "mon maître - à mon père - mon amour, mon dévouement, ma reconnaissance éternelle."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
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