BIB_ID
323541
Accession number
MA 792.4
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1876] Mar. 27.
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.
Year of writing from Lang.
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.
Year of writing from Lang.
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 that his letter gave him great pleasure "in the rather dull monotonous puppet-show" of his life (apparently referring to Collins's praise of a work already published by Swinburne); remarking that he would like to read his Delphic poem to Collins and remarking that "London living disagrees with my work." Saying he is glad to hear that "the great Cyril" is coming along and despairing that the new editor of Didsley "has mangled and defaced beyond recognition" portions of Revenger's Tragedy.
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