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Algernon Charles Swinburne collection of papers, [1856]-1945 bulk (1866-1909).

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Creator

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

  • 760 items.

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Notes

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, correspondence, a notebook for 1856 through 1857, financial documents, and portraits. The manuscriptsinclude poems, essays, fragments of plays, criticism, articles, and notes toward works. Also included are manuscripts copied in Swinburne's hand of works by S. T. Coleridge, Victor Hugo, and James Roxburgh MacClymont, as well as manuscripts relating to the author from Edward Thomas, Humbert Wolfe and others.

The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1859] to 1908, from Swinburne to Ford Madox Brown, Robert Browning, Andrew Chatto, Edmund Gosse, William Ernest Henley, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Ann Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clement King Shorter, andothers. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from [1874] to 1945, exchanged between various correspondents including Maurice Baring, Ford Madox Ford, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Theodore Watts-Dunton and others.There are letters to Swinburne from Henry Arthur Bright, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, John Payne-Collier, Tola Dorian, Harold Hodge, Robert Gordon Latham, Eden Phillpotts, AndréRaffalovich, Richard Herne Shepherd, Alfred Tennyson, Emilie Ashurst Venturi, Thomas Humphry Ward, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and others, dating from 1859 to 1906.

Biographical/Historical Note

Algernon Charles Swinburne was a British poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and literary critic.

Controlled Access Terms

  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 -- Portraits.
  • Correspondence.
  • Notebooks.

Additional Creator Names

  • Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945.
  • Bright, Henry Arthur, 1830-1884.
  • Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893.
  • Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
  • Chatto, Andrew, 1840-1913.
  • Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.
  • Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883.
  • Dorian, Tola, 1841-1918.
  • Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
  • Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
  • Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
  • Hodge, Harold, 1862-1937.
  • Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888.
  • Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.
  • Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953.
  • Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960.
  • Raffalovich, André, 1864-1934.
  • Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919.
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
  • Shepherd, Richard Herne, 1842-1895.
  • Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.
  • Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
  • Venturi, Emilie Ashurst, d. 1893.
  • Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926.
  • Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914.
  • Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950. fmo
  • Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938. fmo
  • Chatto, Andrew, 1840-1913. fmo
  • Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1909- fmo
  • Clawson, John L. (John Lewis), 1865-1933. fmo
  • Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) fmo
  • Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. fmo
  • Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940. fmo
  • Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926. fmo
  • Young, Owen D., 1874- fmo

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