Skip to main content

Box 1

 Container

Restricted

Contains 12 Results:

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 9 July 1880

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 52, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

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."

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 "Dear [Theodore] Watts," 19 July

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Swinburne returns a "truant proof" and sends his "kindest regards." Sender's address is Leigh House, Bradford-On-Avon, Wilts.

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 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

Mathilde Blind to Theodore Watts, 4 April 1881

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Tells Watts of her happiness “at finding my sonnet in the Athenaeum thanks, no doubt, to your friendly influence.” Blind also mentions comments on Watts' being too ill to attend gathering at Fitzroy Square with Madox Brown. Sender's address is 2 Holly Bush Hill, W, Hampstead N.

Dates: 4 April 1881
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: 3
Scope and Contents

Mentions “I have just been asked by some friends to go and see … Macbeth this evening. As I know not whether you had intended calling I just drop you a line that you [should] not, in this downright wintry weather, come here for nothing.” Sender's address is 42 Marley Street, W.

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

Benjamin Jowett to "Dear Mr. Willett"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 22 June 1886 and addressed from Oxford. Asks if Willett will join in a procession.

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

J. Nichol to "Dear Sir"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 13 May 1869, from 25 St. John Street, Oxford, addresses subscription matters, book titles and lists from booksellers.

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: 3
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 6 August 1879, envelope included, in black ink.

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 Mr. R. Woodward

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 50, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Letter addressed to Arleigh [sic] Castle, Bewdley, and dated 30 July 1874, sent from Ashcliffe, Bonchurch, with addressed envelope, asks Woodward for money for St. Boniface School.

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 “My dear Sir”

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 56, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 26 June 1892, Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, on paper edged in black: “My best thanks are due to you for your interesting volume and kindly dedication…”

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 Mrs. Charles

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 57, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Letter dated 18 November 1893, Farringford, on paper edged in black, mentions Mrs. Charles’ cataracts and thanks her for her reminiscences to be included in a memoir, written by son Hallam, on Alfred Tennyson.

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

Theodore Watts-Dunton to "My dear [William Michael] Rossetti"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 64, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

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.”

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