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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.

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...

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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.

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Addressed to Algernon C. Swinburne, Esq., dated 19 March 1868, from 76 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London W, written in black ink. Wilkinson writes Swinburne to praise his Critical Essays on Blake as “perhaps the deepest Book I have ever read…. You have conquered the Blakian Labyrinth.”

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Letter dated 19 April 1898. Declines an invitation from "Mr. Tree." Sender's address printed as 20 Cavendish Square W.

Scope and Contents Letter dated 1 July 1886. Writes Swinburne about poem in the Times newspaper. Also comments on British politics and the “would-be Destroyer” of England which included “the newest pool of Separatists and Slaves of the priesthood – of this truly ‘sin-bad’ Old Man who has got astride from upon her neck – of this Caesarean Demagogue who, in alliance with Charles Stewart Parnell [Irish nationalist politician], would fain act as a Charles Stuart…” Sender's address printed in red: 3 Winchester...

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Bult of correspondence from Blind to Theodore Watts-Dunton, with one letter to Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Letters are dated between 1875-1895.

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Asks, “Have you taken any steps as yet about the MS [manuscript] I sent you, and can you tell me whether everything is definitively settled with regard to Mr. Brookes’ adaptation of the place?” Senders address is 42 Marley Street.

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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.

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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.

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Invites Watts to lunch “at the Holborn.” Sender's address is 3 Holly Bush Mile, Hampstead, N.W.

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Mentions she us “in town in a pretty little flat” and invites Watts to a small dinner party. Sender's address is 27 Hyde Park [unreadable] N.W.

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Invites Watts to a small dinner party; if he cannot attend, she would like to know to invite someone in his stead. Sender's address is 17 Christchurch Row, Hampstead N.W.

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Invites Watts to dinner, mentions her winter stay at the Poplars. Sender's address is The Poplars, 20 Avenue Road, Regents Park.

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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Writes, “I am sorry to have to trouble you about the MS [manuscript] of the Nibleay Essay which I think I mentioned to you Mr. Garnett wanted to … try its fortune with another editor. If it is to go at all it is high time to send it in [unreadable]. If you are too busy tomorrow to bring it down in the course of the afternoon or evening perhaps you will send it by [unreadable].” Sender's address is 52 Torrington Square, W.C.

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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.

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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.

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Apologizes for missing Watts' visit. No Address.

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Invites Watts over for "a chat." Sender's address is 52 Torrington Square, W.C.

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Asks if Watts received the article sent by post. Sender's address is 52 Torrington Square, W.C.

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Invites Watts to a “fortnightly readership of old … authors.” Sender's address is 52 Torrington Square, W.C.

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Invites, “My dear Mr. Watts, Could you come to a cup of tea to-morrow?" Sender's address is 52 Torrington Square.

Scope and Contents Writes, “Dear Mr. Watts, I copied out and made a few alterations in the abstract of Bothwell and Mr. Madox Brown said he could send it on to you today. For my own part, I think it would be advisable to submit … Ford has had his own opinion of it – before Swinburne sees it; but if you think Mr. [unreadable] to have the first reading I have of course no objection. The present arrangement is necessarily only a rough skeitch and might be greatly modified in its writing. My pleasant visit here...

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Mentions receiving a Shelley article and apologizes for not immediately locating another volume; mentions “What a treat it was to see Wm. Swinburne so thoroughly delightful again.” Sender's address is Eaton House.