BIB_ID
323563
Accession number
MA 792.8
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1882 June 7].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (3 p.); 18 cm
Notes
Date 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.
Written on stationery embossed "The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
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."
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
Inviting him to a reading and supper following on Friday at eight o'clock; remarking that he has been busier of late than ever before, mentioning his work on correcting proofs for a forthcoming book of poems and compiling a life of Mary Queen of Scots for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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