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...

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Letter dated 14 October 1884, The Pines, Putney Hill, on paper edged in black, is “far away in the country” but sure he would “make the acquaintance of any one introduced by so old and dear a friend as…”

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Letter dated 22 August 1890, from Northcourt, Newport, Isle of Wright, stays with Swinburne and his aunt, Lady Mary Gordon, and will “be seeing Lord Tennyson who is at Aldworth…”

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Letter dated 16 July 1896, The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W.: “It will for Swinburne and me real delight to see your kind face at last under this roof.”

Scope and Contents Letter dated 18 November 1909, The Pines, 11, Putney Hills S.W. stationery contains directions to The Pines from S.W.R. Station: “My dear Kernahan, It was very pleasant to see your handwriting again. I gather from your enclosure that you have been saying some-thing very kind about me in your lectures, and it is very gratifying to know that my friends are around me still. I have sent on the cutting to Douglas who will, I am sure, appreciate it. With all best wishes, Believe me to be, Very...