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Manuscripts
Algernon Swinburne collection
- Description
A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera related to the British poet and writer Algernon Charles Swinburne. The manuscripts include essays, ballads, poems and a new introduction to a new edition of William Blake: A Critical Essay. The poems include Atlanta in Calydon, On a Country Road, Hymn to Proserpine, and Changes of Heart; and the subjects of the poems and essays include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, Sir Richard Francis Burton, and James McNeill Whistler. Correspondents in the collection include Ford Madox Brown, Sidney Colvin, Paul Hamilton Hayne, John Camden Hotten, Harry Quilter, Richard Herne Shepherd, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and George Frederick Watts. The ephemera includes a small number of printed portraits and other printed material.
- Date
- 1860-1909
- Call number
- mssSwinburne
- Provenance
- provenance unknown. In library as of Quinn sale, Anderson catalogue, 1935.
- provenance unknown. In library as of Clawson and Wilson sale, Anderson catalogue, 1929.
- provenance unknown. In library as of Gable sale, American Art Association, 1963.
- purchased in William K. Bixby sale, 1924.
- purchased in Anderson sale, lot 3075, 1917.
- purchased in Hellman sale, Anderson catalogue, 1923.
- purchased in Maggs Bros. Ltd, 1918.
- purchased in 1918.
- purchased in 1919.
- removed from rare book 26660, April 1957.
- removed from rare book 16286, October 1963.
- purchased from June 1971.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Rights
- The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
- Associated people
- Brown, Ford Madox, (1821-1893.)
- Colvin, Sidney, (1845-1927.)
- Hayne, Paul Hamilton, (1830-1886.)
- Hotten, John Camden, (1832-1873.)
- Quilter, Harry, (1851-1907.)
- Shepherd, Richard Herne, (1842-1895.)
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence, (1833-1908.)
- Watts, George Frederick, (1817-1904.)
