BIB_ID
323576
Accession number
MA 792.12
Creator
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
Display Date
1886 June 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (4 p.); 17.9 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 "The Pines."
Written from "The Pines."
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 his book on Bolingbroke and Voltaire and praising the work; expressing his "cordial and delighted admiration" of his two papers on the educational crisis which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, wishing that "copies could be affixed to every door of the schools."
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