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A.C. Swinburne to Frederick Sandys Box 1, Folder 54, Item 3

Swinburne writes, "My dear Sandys, It is indeed an age or two since we have met, and it would be a real and great pleasure to see you again. But I cannot now sit out any theatrical performance without actual nervous suffering – the result of an imperfect hearing which makes the vague sound of the recitation become in a very short time an absolutely insupportable infliction, unless I know literally by heart the text of the play represented – and an infliction it is even then. Therefore I have abjured all theatrical representations with rigour worthy of a Puritan. Otherwise I should have yielded to Watts's persuasions and accepted an invitation to which I am now compelled to turn – literally – a deaf ear."

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana
  3. Series 1: Correspondence
  4. Correspondence: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, no date

Series 1: Correspondence

Over 150 pieces of handwritten and typescript carbon copy correspondence from nineteenth and twentieth century artists, writers, educators, scholars, editors, and politicians. Correspondents include Algernon Charles Swinburne; Queen Victoria; siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; William Morris;Elizabeth Sewell; John Everett Millair; Alfred and Emily Tennyson; and John Ruskin.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana

Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana 2.25 Linear Feet

Meyers, Terry and Sheila

Collection provides insight into the life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and his contemporaries, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederick Sandys, Theodore Watts-Dunton, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Lucy Madox Brown, William Michael Rossetti, and William Sharp. Materials include handwritten letter and autograph of Queen Victoria; Vanity Fair caricature of Swinburne by Carlo Pelligrini, pseudonym Ape; letters from siblings Christina, William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Thomas Woolner; Matilde and Karl Blinde; Frederic Harrison; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and John Ruskin; and two original art works of Swinburne

  1. College of William and Mary

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