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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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, no date

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, no date

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, no date

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
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, no date