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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 Previously unknown and unpublished until William & Mary Professor, Terry Meyers, rediscovered it and published on it in 1993.

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.”