A.C. Swinburne to Frederick Sandys

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 54, Item: 3

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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 abjured all theatrical representations with rigour worthy of a Puritan. Otherwise I should have yielded to Watts’s persuasions and accepted an invitation to which I am now compelled to turn – literally – a deaf ear."

Dates

Creation: 1854-1932

Creator

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 (Person)

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