Autograph Letter, signed AC Swinburne” , Jan. 2nd 1874, to “My dear Watts”, concerning Watts as “legal advisor”, and alluding to Benjamin Jowett and Joaquin Miller

by Algernon Swinburne

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

4 pp. 12mo. Old folds. Lang, Cecil Y., The Swinburne Letters: 1869-1875, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959, #496, pp.264-5. Item #346575 An early letter from Swinburne’s relationship with his close friend and companion, Theodore Watts-Dunton 1832-1914 , a solicitor and writer who was friends with Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown, who met Swinburne in 1872, and in 1879, invited the grieving, alcoholic, poet, to stay with him at The Pines

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