BIB_ID
323534
Accession number
MA 792.1
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1874?] Oct. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (8 p.); 18 cm
Notes
Collins's edition of The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur was first published in 1878.
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to John Churton Collins. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing from Lang.
Written from "3 Great James Street."
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Algernon Swinburne to John Churton Collins. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing from Lang.
Written from "3 Great James Street."
Provenance
Sold by Mrs. Collins to Swinburne's biographer Thomas J. Wise; sold by Wise to Stevens & Brown of London, which firm sold them to J. Pearson & Co.; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Saying he is rejoiced to hear that Collins intends to edit Cyril Tourneur's work, and discussing his plays, hoping that Collins will include "the newly unearthed comedy" [i.e., "The Transformed Metamorphosis"] and mentioning "Laugh and Lie Downe," remarking that he was so delighted with that title that in his last year at Oxford he wrote a comedy in the manner of Fletcher under the same title. Offering to lend his own copy of "Revenger's Tragedy" (1608) if it would be of any of any use in collating "all the old editions."
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