BIB_ID
323575
Accession number
MA 792.11
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1882 Nov. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 17.7 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
Discussing Shakespeare's use of prose; declining an invitation to see the Cantabrigian Ajax, mentioning that he would be too deaf and too oblivious to follow it; mentioning that he has made some corrections and annotations in his copy of Collins's edition of Cyril Tourneur, remarking that they are at his service when "the idiot public has the sense to require a reissue of the book."
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