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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.

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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."

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Requests a "copy of Marwell's Works."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents Letter to brother: “My dear Edward, I return the papers at once with my signature duly apprehended. I am very much obliged to you, both for explaining the matter to me sufficiently and for not explaining it too much at the risk of addling my head with details. I always feel conscious of an incipient softening of the brain when anybody attempts to make me follow a calculation of any kind. Bertie rather self-complacently asked me the other day what I thought of rule-of-three. I could only...

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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."

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Expresses gratitude for "pamphlet on the Chitral Campaign."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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States that he has "never written on the subject of Herodias" though "the legend ... is, of course, familiar."