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

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 52, Item: 2
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Requests a "copy of Marwell's Works."

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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

Mathilde Blind to A.C. [Algernon Charles] Swinburne, 26 June 1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 2
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Writes concerning research done on Tristan and Iseult tragedy; mentions “Gottfried Von Strassburg’s version” and shared the translation “although I believe you know all the incidents it refers to.” Sender's address is 3 Porters Room, Maida Hill W.

Dates: 26 June 1879
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Blind, Mathilde

Mathilde Blind to Theodore Watts

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 2
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Stays with the “Madox Browns” and asks Watts “whether there is any hope for my M.S. (manuscript] before I leave town.” Sender's address is 37 Fitzroy Square.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Blind, Mathilde, no year, no date

Robert Buchanan to Roden Noel

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 2
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Letter dated 10 July. Invites Noel to visit, mentions a libel case involving an article by George Moore in the Evening News. Sender's address is 9 Gower Street, W.C.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Buchanan, Robert

Edward Burne-Jones to Theodore Watts

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7, Item: 2
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Letter dated 22 May 1896. Mentions an enclosure that "I shall write back and say 'rubbish'" to; promises to come by "one day before long - for the years are fleeting; adds that he sent Swinburne "a copy of our Chaucer." Sender's address is printed The Grange, 49, North End Road, West Kensington, W. Stamped envelope included.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Burne-Jones, Edward

Georgiana Burne-Jones to Lucy Clifford

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 2
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Letter dated 10 May 1905. Declines invitation to Clifford's daughter Ethel's wedding but writes: "She inherits from her mother a high tradition of love in marriage and of courage in Life, and I pray that neither of those may ever fail her." Sender's address is printed Rottingdean, Sussex.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Burne-Jones, Georgiana

Hall Caine to "Dear Mr. Paget"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 2
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Letter dated 21 September 1897. Apologizes for not seeing Paget when he was in London. Sender's address is stamped Greeba Castle, Isle of Man.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Caine, Hall

Rose M. Crawshay to Lucy [Madox Brown] Rossetti

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 2
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Letter dated 26 July 1890. Mentions prize essays on Byron, Shelley, and Keats (from William Michael Rossetti's annotation).

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Crawshay, Rose Mary

James Douglas to "Dear St. John Adcock"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 2
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Letter dated 16 June 1914: “I have just got your note on my return from a country week-end. I’ll gladly send you the Watts-Dunton article. With kind regards, Sincerely yours, James Douglas.” Address stamped 96, Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park, W, in black ink.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Douglas, James

Iza Duffus Hardy to Lucy [Madox Brown] Rossetti

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16, Item: 2
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Letter undated, on blue paper with red monogram. Unable to visit Rossetti’s home because she was saying goodbye to a cousin who was leaving for an extended trip abroad. Sender's address is 126 Portstown Road.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Hardy, Iza

Benjamin Jowett to "My dear Mr. Davidson"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22, Item: 2
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Letter is dated June 25, and addressed from Ball [Balliol] Coll [College]. Will come to see Davidson in London.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Jowett, Benjamin

Thomas Babington Macaulay to "My dear Sir"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 26, Item: 2
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Letter is likely addressed to Sir Charles Eastlake and dated 30 March 1859. Declines an invitation to dinner, but sends a donation to the Artist' Benevolent Institution. Sender's address is Holly Lodge, Kensington.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Macaulay, Thomas Babington

Richard Monckton Milnes to Monteith

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 30, Item: 2
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Letter has no address and no date, discusses social life, political speeches in House of Commons.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Milnes, Richard Monckton

J. Nichol to "Dear sir"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, Item: 2
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Letter dated 5 May 1869, from 25 St. John Street, Oxford, forwards a letter to “Mr. Maclehose … who has paid my subscription for the last three years.”

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Nichol, J. [John]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Theodore Watts

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 46, Item: 2
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Letter dated Wednesday, 5 August 1879, in pencil; accompanied by a postcard to Terry Myers.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Elizabeth Sewell to R. Woodward

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 50, Item: 2
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Letter dated 13 June 1873, sent from Ashcliff, Bonchurch to Arley Castle, Bewdley, on paper edged in black, envelope included, thanks Woodward for “your continued kindness.”

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Sewell, Elizabeth

Alfred Tennyson to "Dear Mr. Fox"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 56, Item: 2
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Letter dated 20 October 1888, from Aldworth, Haslemere, Surry: Tennyson’s father is ill, so he is unable to travel or visit much.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Tennyson, Alfred

Emily Tennyson to “My dear Mrs. Charles”

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 57, Item: 2
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Letter dated 4 July 1870, from Aldworth, Blackdown, Haslemere, invites Mrs. Charles to visit and notes that she asked so late because she was unable to offer her a bed with certainty.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Tennyson, Emily

Theodore Watts to "My dear Mr. Speilman"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 64, Item: 2
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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…”

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Thomas Woolner to "Dear Mr. Payne"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 66, Item: 2
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Letter dated December 31, sends Payne “a little autograph of A. Tennyson” that “has a more genuine and natural look.”

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Woolner, Thomas

Walter Savage Landor to "My dear sir"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23, Item: 2
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Letter dated 17 January 1879, refuses to give his opinion of unpublished work but praises "Vox Dei" with some exception. Sender's address is Bath.

Dates: 1854-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana / Series 1: Correspondence / Correspondence: Landor, Walter Savage