BIB_ID
323559
Accession number
MA 792.6
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
[1880] Apr. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p.); 18.1 cm
Notes
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.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Year of writing from Lang.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
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
Remarking on how long it has been since Swinburne has heard from or seen Collins; inviting him to a reading the following Wednesday, hoping he will be able to attend this "house- and verse-warming," and giving detailed directions from various stations in London.
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