Ashley MS A294, A295, A4374

Letters from A. C. Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Michael Rossetti, Theodore Watts[-Dunton], Harry Buxton Forman, and F. S. Ellis, together with letters from John Nichol and W. M. Rossetti to Swinburne, from Robert Buchanan to Robert Browning, and from Edmund Gosse and Frank Karslake to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerned with Robert Buchanan's The Fleshly School of Poetry, 1872, an attack on D. G. Rossetti and Swinburne, first published in The Contemporary Review for Oct. 1871, and their reactions to it, particularly in their pamphlets The Stealthy School of Criticism, 1871 (published in watered-down form in the Athenæum, Dec. 1871) and Under the Microscope, 1872; 9 Oct. [1871]-30 March [1916]. The letters from Swinburne are printed in C. Y. Lang, Swinburne Letters, ii, 1959, pp. 160-165, 180-181 and iii, 1960, pp. 264-265; those from D. G. Rossetti in O. Doughty and J. R. Wahl, Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, iii, 1967, pp. 1017-1018, 1037-1040; and those of W. M. Rossetti in Roger W. Peattie, Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, 1990, pp. 282-283. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 98-103; viii, pp. 61-64.

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