BIB_ID
323569
Accession number
MA 792.9
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1882 Sept. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 18 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 from "2 The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W."
Written from "2 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
Asking for help identifying four quotations, which have been sent to Swinburne by Lamb's biographer (Alfred Ainger); remarking on his frustration at knowing the quotations but not being able to place them. Mentioning that he was reading Collins's introduction to his edition of Cyril Tourneur the previous evening and referencing Carew Hazlitt's bad edition of The Revenger's Tragedy.
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