BIB_ID
323561
Accession number
MA 792.7
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1881 June 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p.); 18.2 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."
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
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
Thanking him for a copy his "exquisite edition of Lord Herbert" [The Poems of Lord Herbert of Cherbury], remarking on the beauty of the madrigal on p. 25; inviting him to visit to hear some of Swinburne's new poems; remarking that his last volume has not sold well and referencing a review in the Spectator.
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