Title

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

Author

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Additional Authors

• 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, -1893.
• Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926.
• Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914.

Description

760 items.

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Notebooks.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

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

Language (note)

• Some manuscripts and correspondence in French.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Former owners include Clement King Shorter, Andrew Chatto, Walter Chrysler, A. Edward Newton, John L. Clawson, Jerome Kern, W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Swinburne

Author

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.

Title

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

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, correspondence, a notebook for 1856 through 1857, financial documents, and portraits. The manuscripts include 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, and others. 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, André Raffalovich, Richard Herne Shepherd, Alfred Tennyson, Emilie Ashurst Venturi, Thomas Humphry Ward, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and others, dating from 1859 to 1906.

Restricted Access

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

Biography

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

Language

Some manuscripts and correspondence in French.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

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, -1893.

Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926.

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914.

Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950. Former owner

Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938. Former owner

Chatto, Andrew, 1840-1913. Former owner

Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1909- Former owner

Clawson, John L. (John Lewis), 1865-1933. Former owner

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Former owner

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940. Former owner

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926. Former owner

Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Swinburne