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Miscelleanous items include autographs from Theodore Watts-Dunton, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Queen Victoria; caricatures from Vanity Fair magazine; reproduced engravings; materials from Swinburne's centennial exhibition; and 1975 commemorative calendar.

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Handwritten poem, “In Bohemia,” signed and dated 3 October 1888. Includes short, separate typed description.

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Handwritten copies of two poems, “The Church Porch – II” and “Pax Volis” [aka “World’s Worth”], signed “D.G. Rossetti.” Poem is undated.

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Original handwritten manuscript of “Ariadne in Naxos” and “Beatrice.” Manuscript is “Dedicated with affectionate regard to J.N. [John Nichol] Admiringly to the author of “Hannibal” and noted “To my friend Adelaide L. Elder, Xmas 1877, W.S.” Written in 1876.

Manuscript is accompanied by two photocopied articles about the identification of the its author.

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Series consists of 13 manuscripts. Contains both original and facsimile manuscripts in bound scrapbook volumes encased in mylar; a few unbound manuscripts are foldered.

Algernon Charles Swinburne is the primary author, but there are single manuscripts by poets William Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Louise Chandler Moulton.

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Original manuscript dated 1866. "Poems and Ballads 1866" is handwritten in pencil on inside front cover.

Poem is pasted to seventh page and written on both sides of the paper. It is written in black ink on light blue paper. Rest of the volume is blank.

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Original manuscript dated 1866. Two page typewritten poem is on sixth page, loose. Handwritten poem on blue paper with black ink, pasted to pages 7-9. “Poems and Ballads, 1866” handwritten in pencil on inside front cover.

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Original manuscript dated March 12, 1867, from the chorus of "Atalanta in Calydon" handwritten and signed “A.C. Swinburne."

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Original manuscript dated 1878, “Poems and Ballads, 1878” handwritten in pencil on inside front cover. Poem written in black in on single sheet of blue paper pasted directly to seventh page. “Belgravia” written in light pencil on top of poem. Contains Swinburne's signature.

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Original manuscript with "Finished April 15, 1882" handwritten on back of last page. First pages are blank, with manuscript pasted to pages 9-33, and written in black ink on blue paper.

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Original manuscript dated 1893. “Astrophel and other Poems, 1894” handwritten in pencil on inside front cover. Poem is handwritten in black ink on three pages of blue paper, pasted to pages 7-9, and “inscribed to my mother” with “Pine Ridge, September 1893” written on final page.

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Facsimile manuscript dated May 8, 1913 with typed explanatory note: “This essay is said to have caused the estrangement between Whistler and Swinburne which continued until Whistler’s death.” Includes letter from H.H. Harper, treasurer of the Bibliophile Society, to Mr. James H. Manning regarding Manning’s inclusion on the subscription list for “the Swinburne publication.”

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Original holograph of “Milton,” undated and signed A.C. Swinburne, poem is double-sided and in black ink. Previously unknown and unpublished until William & Mary Professor, Terry Meyers, rediscovered it and published on it in 1993.

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Facsimile manuscript, no date; bookplate notes “Reproduction of the original manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘Ave Atque Vale’ once the possession of Geoffrey Madan given to Eton College in his memory in 1947 by M.M.” Smaller bookplate mentions “Mark Samuel Lasner.”

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Press release for “Exhibition at Leeds” dated 6 April 1937, The Times, exhibition to commemorate Algernon Charles Swinburne’s centenary, included books, manuscripts, letters and “galley proofs” of Lesbia Brandon.

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Reproduced photograph of “The Burial of Lady Jane Swinburne at Bonchurch with A.C. Swinburne and his sisters present” dated 1896.

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Original signature and photograph in cardboard mat.

Scope and Contents Large cardboard photograph of “Mr. Swinburne” published by Elliott & Fry Photographers, 55 Baker Street W. and at 7 Gloucester Terrace S.W. Swinburne is standing on steps with brick, ivy-covered wall behind him.Greeting card with George Richmond’s 1843 painting of “Swinburne and his sisters” reproduced on the front. Back of card contains brief bios for Swinburne and Richmond. Printed by The Roundwood Press for the National Portrait Gallery.Original copy of The...

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Autographs, on torn sheets of paper; handwriting is also included on an envelope stamped The Pines, Putney Hill S.W.

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Autograph signed “AT” and including the phrase, “Many thanks.” Included with letter to “Dear Mr. Fox,” dated 20 October 1888, found in correspondence (Box 1, Folder 56).

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Small fragment of handwriting from Maria Francesca Rossetti and James Hannay.

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Autograph dated High Elsm, 30 January 1881, in black ink.

Also includes one letter, written and signed by Arnold, dated 2 August 1887, states that he will not give any lectures this year. "even for the sake of the Kindergarten, to which I wish heartily well."

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Letter dated 28 May 1934, Dolder Grand Hotel, Zurich, to bookseller Fred Bason, addresses Bason’s interest in Hichens’ The Green Carnation. Also includes a handwritten transcription, author unknown.

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Autograph signed below a short note from The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, dated 27 February 1912, regarding “the Washington article.”

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Caricature depicts figure near a fireplace mantel, dressed in slippers, with small girl in black dress, captioned: “Mr. Matthew Arnold. To him, Miss Mary Augusta, “Why, Uncle Matthew, Oh why, will not you be always wholly serious.”

Arnold, poet and literary critic, was the uncle of Mary Augusta Arnold, the little girl depicted, who later became a novelist and an anti-suffrage advocate.