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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

 Person

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Madam," 25 August 1902

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 13
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Responds to request for theatrical information: "I should be happy if I could be of any service to any friend of George Powell’s. But I know nothing of the stage or of the costume proper to a heroine of Villon’s, and no portrait of the lady who undertakes the part would help me to any suggestion. So I can only send you both my best wishes for her success."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir"

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 54, Item: 2
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Writes, “I return the title page with corrections. Having mislaid Mr. Halliwell’s address, I must give you the trouble of sending it again and I have to write to him at once. Can you let me know, as I cannot find his letter to see, whether he now habitually uses the official name of The Phillipino or not?" Sender's address marked as Hollingbury Copse, Brighton.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 6 October 1895

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 11
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Expresses gratitude for "pamphlet on the Chitral Campaign."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 7 January 1881

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 4
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Requests that a note be inserted into "next week's number of the Academy." Letter is addressed to "the Editor of the Academy."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 8 October 1901

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 12
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Thanks receipient "for sending me the notes from my grandfather. He was 91, not 94, in 1853. The latter date must have been a slip of the pen or a lapse of memory, unless all other records of his age are wrong. He died in the summer of 1860."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 9 July 1880

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 3
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Thanks letter recipient for "your father's pamphlet" and offers to distribute copies: "If I can find any other means of furthering his aim ... I shall be happy to avail myself of them."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 11 November 1886

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 7
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Asks where he "could get a copy of the pamphlet you inquire for." He has not had one "for many years."

Letter has no sender's address.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 30 October 1906

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 16
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States that he has "never written on the subject of Herodias" though "the legend ... is, of course, familiar."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear [Theodore] Watts," 19 July

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 3
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Swinburne returns a "truant proof" and sends his "kindest regards." Sender's address is Leigh House, Bradford-On-Avon, Wilts.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to F. [Frederick] Langbridge, 25 December 1882

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 5
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Informs Langbridge that he may "make use of the extract you specify." However, he adds, "I should have thought the breaking-off in the middle at once of a line and of a sentence rather ungracefully abrupt but that is your concern."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to Frederick Sandys

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 54, Item: 3
Scope and Contents Swinburne writes, “My dear Sandys, It is indeed an age or two since we have met, and it would be a real and great pleasure to see you again. But I cannot now sit out any theatrical performance without actual nervous suffering – the result of an imperfect hearing which makes the vague sound of the recitation become in a very short time an absolutely insupportable infliction, unless I know literally by heart the text of the play represented – and an infliction it is even then. Therefore I have...
Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to Henry A. Bright, 3 July 1878

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 1
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Mentions work being done at The Pines and welcomes Bright to visit "any other day you will mention next week." Details entry to The Pines: "Of the two entrance doors ours is the second as you go uphill."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "John," 18 November

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 5
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Swinburne's book order, including “Michelet’s new book – Nos Fils … Flaubert’s just published book L’Education Sentimentale.” Swinburne also shares his desire to write a new article on Flaubert, an article on “Ford’s plays” and requests “the proofs of [The Complaint of] ‘Lisa’ for America…” Sender's address marked as Holmwood, Henley on Thames.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Aunt Mary [Gordon]," 14 January

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 1
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Mentions the arrival of a book and remarks on its contents. There is no sender's address marked.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Cousin," 30 October 1904

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 15
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Sends condolences: “I have read with deep interest and sympathy the pathetic and heroic record of your late brother’s life and death. No nobler and more inspiring subject for commemoration could be imagined or desired: but whether I shall ever be able to avail myself of it I naturally cannot at present say."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "My Dear Mr. Jowett," 18 April

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 2
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Writes, “I shall be very glad to come on Saturday. I am very sincerely sorry that you have a bad account of Harrison. I hope there is not reason to give up looking for a better one soon. I am well, and have been getting a little work done on different lines.” Letter edged in black.

Sender's address is Holmwood.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Mrs. Seath," 25 September

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 4
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Swinburne thanks Mrs. Seath for sending his coat. He apologizes for his "carelessness" which gave her the "trouble of sending it." No sender's address marked.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Sir"

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 54, Item: 4
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Declines a social invitation: “My dear Sir, I am suddenly and unavoidably prevented from enjoying the pleasure I had hoped for tonight. You will … understand how vexatious it is to me to be thus deprived of it, I hope [you?] will allow me to call soon and apologize in person – though indeed it is Providence above from whom an apology is due – to me as well as to you." Sender's address marked as 22a Dorset Street, W.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Sir" [Frederick Chapman], 19 November 1888

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 9
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Acknowledges payment: "I should have written before now to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your cheque for £46 but I was away from home at the time of its arrival, which will explain the tardiness of this acknowledgement."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Sir"

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 54, Item: 1
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Inquires about a book order: “Will you send to the above address the copy, if one hand.... If any of the books I have ordered did come in, please forward them to the same directions." Sender's address marked as [unreadable] Vicarage, Brentwood.

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Sir," 13 November 1903

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 14
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Relates father's naval service: "My father, Admiral Swinburne, served as a midshipman under Lord Collingwood, and always retained a cordial affection for this memory."

Dates: 1854-1932

A.C. Swinburne to "Sir," 21 November 1879

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 2

A.C. Swinburne to "Sir" [Julian Marshall], 15 February 1883

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 6
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Gives permission "to print my verses with your music." Also mentions, “I am very ignorant of music as a science, though … very susceptible to the enjoyment of such music as appeals to me – that, for instance, of the ‘might master’ [Richard Wagner] just now gone from us.” Requests a “Frenchman’s opinion” of how his verse reads in French.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

 File — Box 1, Folder: 52
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Correspondence written by Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed "A.C. Swinburne" and sent between 1878-1906. Letters are mostly sent from The Pines, Putney Hill, SW with a few noted exceptions.

Dates: 1854-1932

Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, no date

 File — Box 1, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents From the Series: Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.Correspondence...
Dates: 1854-1932

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