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Record Id:
032-001962430
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Add MS 62113
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE: fragments of drafts and notes for poems, essays and reviews, letters, etc.; aft. 1859-circa 1904, n.d. Mostly autograph. Partly French and Italian. Formerly in the possession of Thomas J. Wise. Purchased from Hofmann and Freeman, 30 March 1981.

Paper; ff. 39.

1. f. 1. Fragment of sixteen lines from Chastelard, ll. 4-11 corresponding to [Act V, Sc. II], p. 137; ll. 8 and 9 differ. Written on a half folio of blue laid paper, wmk: E. TOWGOOD 1859. 210 x 170mm.

2. f. 2. Dedication to Poems and Ballads, Second Series, as printed. On one side of a sheet of blue laid paper, wmk: VALLEYFIELD. 330 x 210mm.

3. f. 3. Notes for The Age of Shakespeare. Typewritten, with MS. additions. Sheet numbered 14. One side only of quarto cream laid paper, wmk: Silver Linen. 267 x 210mm.

4. f. 4. Fragment of Locrine, [Act V, Sc. II], pp. 118-119: Thou thought'st ... Forgive me &c'. On one side of a scrap of white laid paper, wmk: [OR]IGINAL. 125 x 70mm.

5. f. 5. Plan for the Dedicatory Epistle to the collected edition of Swinburne's poems, 1904. Draft. On both sides of a folio of blue wove paper, no wmk. 258 x 203mm.

6. f. 6. List of ballads. On the inside cover of a quarto notebook. 240 x 185mm.

7. f. 7. List of sources, canto by canto, for Tristram. On both sides of a sheet of octavo white laid paper. 180 x 113mm.

8. f. 8. Notes for a review(?), mentioning Dante Gabriel Rosetti's 'Cloud Confines'. On a sheet of octavo cream laid notepaper, the verso containing the end of a letter from Joseph Knight to Swinburne. 115 x 180mm.

9. f. 9. Fragment of an early play in Jacobean style, with characters 'F'. and 'A'. On both sides of a fragment of grey laid paper, no wmk. 83 x 105mm.

10. f. 10. List of reference books, chiefly 17th cent. plays, in the British Museum. 178 x 115mm.

11. f. 11. Fragment of a letter to an unidentified Frenchwoman. Draft. French. 88 x 115mm.

12. f. 12. Notes, partly on Carlyle, possibly for a review, with two lines of verse, beg. 'An aftermath of latter light' on the verso. On a fragment of cream wove paper, no wmk. 38 x 205mm.

13. f. 13. Notes on a translation or reading of The Iliad, and the relative ages of Chapman, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson; 1874. On a scrap of cream wove paper, no wmk. 52 x 255mm.

14. f. 14. Epigram on Shaw, in six lines in pencil, with two lines of verse in ink. On one side of a half folio of blue wove paper, no wmk. 148 x 205mm.

15. f. 15. Passage from Jonson's 'Discoveries'. Copy. On both sides of a sheet of octavo cream laid paper, wmk: [ORI]IGINAL [ ]EYMILL [ ]ENT. 177 x 113mm.

16. f. 16. 'Notes of St. Paul's manner'. On one side of a sheet of octavo cream laid paper, wmk: CREAM LAID NOTE. 177 x 110mm.

17. f. 17. Notes on Carlyle. On one side of a sheet of octavo cream laid paper. 178 x 113mm.

18. f. 18. Notes on 'Border Ballads'. On one side of a fragment of cream wove paper, no wmk. 100 x 212mm.

19. f. 19. Notes on Restoration plays (?). In ink and pencil on one half of a folded folio of cream wove paper, wmk: HIERATICA (a vegetable parchment) J. S. & Co. 330 x 202mm.

20. f. 20. Two lines of verse, 'God omnipotent, Lord in wood and wild / Pan and our sire Apollo reconciled'. On one side of a double sheet of quarto blue wove paper. 258 x 205mm.

21. f. 21. 'Notes made at the British Museum by Swinburne when working upon "The Age of Shakespeare"': a description of 22 below in the hand of T. J. Wise (?). On one side of a sheet of folio grey laid paper, wmk: H. V. Clements & Co. 324 x 204mm.

22. f. 22. The notes by Swinburne described in 21 above. In pencil and ink on one side of a sheet of quarto blue wove paper, no wmk. 260 x 206mm.

23. f. 23. Two lines of verse, 'The sea is one round all the world: / the sea / Clasps earth about with heaven; & hers are we'. On one side of a scrap of cream wove paper, no wmk. 65 x 112mm.

24. f. 24. Note on 'Sonnets in various lengths of metre'. On one side of an octavo sheet of cream laid paper, wmk: A PIRI / 18[ ]. 112 x 182mm.

25. f. 25. Notes on Hugo, with three lines of verse, beg. 'His living face', on the verso. On half a sheet of quarto cream laid paper, wmk: HIERATICA J. S. & Co. 143 x 207mm.

26. f. 26. Line from Paul Buquet, Le Cri du Peuple, 19 March 1888. French. Written on one side of a fragment of blue laid paper, no wmk. 74 x 202mm.

27. ff. 27-28v. Notes, signed A. C. S. On the outside leaves of a double sheet of octavo cream wove paper, wmk: HIERATICA. Italian. 180 x 114mm.

28. f. 29. Note on 'Theatre en Liberté'. On one side of a sheet of octavo white wove paper, no wmk. 112 x 180mm.

29. f. 30. Note beg. 'C. G. R.Mrs Molesworth'. On one side of a fragment of white laid paper, wmk: SUPER[FINE]. 112 x 90mm.

30. f. 31. Quotation from Cobbold's Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. On the outside of an envelope addressed to Swinburne, pm. 23 Feb. 120 x 215mm.

31. f. 32. Lines of verse mentioning Shakespeare. Draft. On a fragment of cream wove paper, no wmk. 82 x 255 mm.

32. f. 33. Notes for a review (?) of a work on Elizabethan London. On one side of a sheet of blue wove paper, no wmk. 260 x 205mm.

33. f. 34. Notes on the Borgias. On one side of a quarto sheet of blue wove paper, no wmk. 258 x 203mm.

34. f. 35. List of people 'praised' and 'dispraised'; on the verso are two lines of verse, headed 'Le Caron'. On a quarto sheet of blue wove paper, no wmk. 257 x 205mm.

35. ff. 36-37. Notes on Tennyson's Norman poems. On one side each of two sheets of blue laid paper, no wmk. 210 x 170mm.

36. f. 38. List headed 'Select Poems'. On one side of a folio of blue laid paper, wmk: J. ALLEN & SONS / SUPERFINE / 1879. 208 x 168mm.

37. f. 39. List of works by Swinburne. On one side of a double folio of cream wove paper, wmk: HIERATICA. 324 x 203mm.

Scope & Content:

Literary History: Poetry ENGLISH: Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Fragments of poems, reviews, letters, etc., by Algernon Charles Swinburne: aft. 1859-circa 1904, n.d.: Partly Fr. and Ital: Drafts: Mostly autogr.

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Western Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1859
End Date:
1909
Date Range:
1859-1909
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Thomas James Wise, book collector: Owned.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, poet, 1837-1909
Wise, Thomas James, book and manuscript collector, 1859-1937