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GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

ALGERNON SWINBURNE COLLECTION

GEN MSS 303

by Beinecke Staff

New Haven, Connecticut

July 1999
Last Updated: April 2005

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

PROVENANCE

Ongoing collection of documents acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Source information is recorded on the folders. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

The Algernon Swinburne Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

CITE AS

Algernon Swinburne Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

This collection is open for research.

PROCESSING NOTES

This finding aid was produced from previously existing cards in the Manuscripts Catalog, or from another inventory. All pertinent bibliographical information has been retained. If the collection also contains unlisted or unsorted material, it has been noted in the box-and-folder list. This finding aid will be updated periodically to account for new materials that may be added to the collection. The date of the most recent update is noted on the title page. For information on material that may have been added since the last update, please consult the Public Service Desk.

DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Algernon Swinburne, which the library has chosen to group and list as an artificial collection.


Series I.		Correspondence
Box	Folder		Date
	LETTERS BY SWINBURNE
1	1	Autographed postcard signed to Arthur E. Aarons	[1903 Oct?]
		Purchase, 1950
	2	ALS to Patrick Proctor Alexander, London	1881 Aug 5
		Purchase, 1954
	3	ALS to [Thomas Allsop], [London]	n.d.
		Purchase, 1966
	4	ALS to Richard Bagot, London	1901 Mar 20
		Purchase, 1950
	5	2 ALS to Thomas Spencer Baynes, Henley on Thames, Oxford; The Pines, Putney Hill, London	1876, 1882
		Purchase, 1953
	6	ALS to [Thomas Spencer Baynes?], London	1883 Apr 7
		Purchase
	7	ALS to William Black, The Pines, Putney Hill, London	1888 Dec 12
		Purchase, 1953
	8	8 ALS to Henry A. Bright	1874-83
		Gift, 1950
	9	ALS to Robert Browning, London	1875 Feb 25
		Purchase, 1950
	10	ALS to Robert Browning, [London]	1881 Jan 26
		Purchase, 1951
	11-12	86 ALS and 2 letters and a receipt signed, to Andrew Chatto of Chatto and Windus	1874-1903
		Purchase, 1950 Includes Tinker 2008
	13	ALS to Andrew Chatto, The Pines, Putney Hill	[1882 Dec 26?]
		Gift, 1972
	14	2 ALS to Andrew Chatto, London	1882; 1885
		Purchase, 1956; 1960
	15	ALS to James Sutherland Cotton	[ca. 1892 Dec]
		Purchase, 1959
	16	ALS to the editor of the Academy [James Sutherland Cotton?]	1892 Dec 28
		Gift, 1950
	17	ALS in French to Mme. [Tola] Dorian, London	[ca. 1882 Nov]
		Accompanied by typescript Purchase, 1950
	18	APCS to Percy Dryden-Mundy, London	1901 Jan 14
		Gift, 1968
	19	ALS to James Nicol Dunn, London	1899 Feb 20
		Purchase, 1959
	20	ALS to Havelock Ellis, London	1886 Nov 4
		Purchase, 1950
	21	ALS (in French) to [Felix Feneon?], London	1884 May 8
		Purchase, 1956
	22	ALS to Mr. Fletcher	n.d.
	23	5 ALS to Frederick James Furnivall, London; Holmwood, Surrey	1866-76
		Purchase, 1953
	24	ALS to Richard Garnett, Alton, England	1892 Aug 12
		Gift, 1950
	25	ALS to Edmund Gosse, London	1893 Mar 24
		Purchase, 1954
	26	ALS to Sabine Matilda Greville, The Pines, Putney	1881 Feb 4
		Sends her the poem (printed in 1881 under the title "Euthanatos") he had written on her mother's, Maria Thellusson, death; accompanied by a lock of Swinburne's hair Purchase, 1969
	27	ALS to Alexander Ballock Grosart, London	1896 Sep 19
		Purchase, 1954
	28	ALS to Mrs. Thomas Gordon Hake, Holmwood, Henley on Thames	[1876] Jun 17
		Accompanied by typescript Purchase, 1958
	29	ALS to John Camden Hotten	[1866] Nov 3
		Purchase, 1950
	30	ALS to John Camden Hotten, Holmwood, Surrey	1867 Jan 2
		Purchase, 1954
	31	ALS to [John Camden Hotten]	[1868 Jul?]
		Gift, 1950
	32	ALS to J.C. Hotten, Holmwood	[1872] Dec 2
		Gift, 1972
	33	ALS to [Charles Augustus] Howell, [Holmwood, Surrey]	[1872] Aug 2
		Purchase, 1951
	34	ALS to Messrs. J.W. Jarvis and Son, London	1885 Oct 23
		Purchase, 1950
	35	ALS to Margaret Jones, London	1883 Dec 13
		Accompanied with typescript Purchase, 1956
	36	ALS to Mr. Knight, [London]	[1866] Feb 4
		Gift, 1943
	37	2 ALS to Joseph Knight, London	[1865,1874]
		Purchase, 1954; 1959
	38	4 ALS to Joseph Knight	1865-66
		Purchase, 1980
	39	ALS to Joseph Knight, London	[1866?] Aug 3
		Purchase, 1957
	40	2 ALS to James Thomas Knowles, London	1884 May, Jun
		Purchase 1959
	41	AL (fragment) to the editor of The Athenaeum [Norman MacColl], London	[1875] Jun 6
	42	ALS to Philip [Bourke Marston], London	1886 Nov 15
		Accompanied by typescript Gift, 1950
	43	TLS to George Meredith	[1908 Feb]
		Also signed by Theodore Watts-Dunton Gift, 1960
	44	ALS to Herman Charles Merivale, London	[1881 Sep]
		Purchase, 1960
	45	2 ALS and 1 AL (incomplete) to Mary Louisa Molesworth, London	1884-96
		Accompanied by typescript
	46	ALS to William Morris, The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W.	1894 Jan 23
		Note attributed to Sydney Cockerell on third page of sheet
		Purchase, 1972
	47	3 ALS to John Nichol, Capheaton, London	[1857]-84
		Purchase, 1954; 1958
	48	ALS to Reverend John Oliver, Bradford- on-Avon, Wilts	1887 Aug 3
		Pasted on letter is a small photograph of Swinburne
		Gift, 1950
	49	20 ALS to Thomas Purnell	1865-1877
	50	ALS to Christina Rossetti, London	1883 Jun 7
		Gift, 1968
	51	2 ALS to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, London	[1870?], n.d.
		Purchase, 1961
	52	5 ALS to Lucy Brown Rossetti, London	1884-92
		Gift, 1960; 1962
	53	ALS to William Michael Rossetti, The Pines	1885 Jan 1
		Gift, 1977
	54	ALS to William Michael Rossetti, The Pines	1891 Mar 22
		Gift, 1973
	55	ALS to William Michael Rossetti, The Pines	1891 Nov 23
		Compares the poetry of Victor Hugo to that of William Blake
		Gift, 1974
2	56	ALS in French, to [Comte Paul Jaques Raymond Binesse de Saint-Victor], Henley on Thames	1872 Sep 19
		Purchase, 1944
	57	ALS to the Editor of the St. James's Gazette	1889 Feb 28
		Accompanied by a leaf torn from The Nineteenth Century, No. CCXLI, March 1897, with 6 lines of manuscript verse added to his printed poem "For Greece and Crete". Purchase, 1954
	58	2 ALS to Frederick Sandys, London	1874, 1890
		Purchase, 1956; Gift, 1969
	59	16 ALS to [William Bell] Scott1859-82
		Purchase, 1952
	60	11 ALS to Richard Herne Shepherd, Isle of Wight; London	[1874]
		Purchase, 1956
	61	ALS to Mrs. Clement Shorter, The Pines	1902 Apr ll
		Printed in and removed from his Letters on William Morris, Omar Khayyam and other subjects of interest, London 1910 Purchase, 1959
	62	ALS to Clement Shorter, The Pines	1908 Sep 28
		Printed in and removed from his Letters on William Morris, Omar Khayyam and other subjects of interest, London 1910 Purchase, 1959
	63	ALS to [Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.], London	1889 Dec 29
		Accompanied by typescript Purchase, 1964
	64	ALS to editor of the Westminster Gazette [J. Alfred Spender]	1902 Jul 21
		Accompanied by typescript Purchase, 1950
	65	3 ALS to [Marion Harry] Spielmann, London; Broxhead Warren, Alton, Hants	[1888]; 1892
		Accompanied by 2 TLS from the librarian of the Chelsea Public Library and 3 TLS from the librarian of the Westminster Public Libraries to Percy E. Spielmann Purchase, 1965
	66	ALS to Caroline Stansfield, London	[1870] Oct 1
		Accompanied by a clipping about Giuseppe Mazzini Purchase, 1954
	67	2 ALS to Charles Henry Swinburne, Lower Easton; London	1854; [1861]
		Purchase, 1954
	68	3 ALS to Isabel Swinburne, London	[1880;88]; 190
		Purchase, 1954
	69	ALS to Arthur Symons, London	1908 May 13
		Purchase, 1950
	70	ALS to [Frank D. Thomas]	1884 Dec 21
		Purchase, 1950
	71	ALS to Henry Wallis, London	[1865]
		The paper is watermarked "1865" Purchase, 1975
	71a-73	55 ALS and 3 autograph signed postcards to Theodore Watts-Dunton	[1872-96?]
		Purchase, 1950
	74	30 ALS to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton	1872-96
		Accompanied by two pictures of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton and illuminated title-page Purchase, 1956
	75	3 ALS to Francis Gledstanes Waugh, London; Holmwood, Shiplake, Henley on Thames	1868-73
		Purchase, 1958; 1959
	76	ALS to Stephen Wheeler, London	1899 Jan 29
		Purchase, 1950
	77	ALS to Stephen Wheeler, London	1907 May 5
		Purchase, 1950
	78	ALS to Stephen Wheeler, London	1908 Dec ll
		Accompanied by typescript Purchase, 1934
	79	ALS to unidentified recipient, concerning his essay on William Blake, [London]	[1864] Feb 22
		Gift, 1951 Tinker 2009
	80	ALS to unidentified recipient, London	[1877] Oct 24
		Purchase, 1956
	81	ALS to unidentified recipient, [London]	1880 Nov 3
		Purchase, 1951
	82	ALS to unidentified recipient, The Pines, Putney Hill, London	1889 Jul 21
		Purchase, 1953
	83	ALS to unidentified recipient, London	1890 Apr 16
		Purchase, 1954
	84	AL draft to an unidentified recipient, The Pines	1890 Oct 30
		Page 4 begins the draft of a poem, "It might prevent starvation. . ." Gift, 1975
	85	ALS to unidentified recipient	n.d.
		Purchase, 1954
	86	ALS to an unidentified recipient	n.d.
		Purchase, 1964
	LETTERS TO AND ABOUT SWINBURNE
	87	Clayden, Peter William. TL to Algernon Charles Swinburne, London	1899 Aug 8
		With Swinburne's reply written in ink across the top Gift, 1969
	88	Trevelyan, Pauline Jermyn. ALS to [William Bell] Scott, mentioning Swinburne, Newcastle on Tyne	1860 May
		Purchase, 1952


Series II.		Writings
Box	Folder		Date
	POEMS
3	89	Astrea Victrix: autograph manuscript poem of 10 stanzas, with corrections and additions	n.d.
		Gift, 1952
	90	Atalanta in Calydon: Chorus	n.d.
		Poem, AMs, with many changes in same hand Purchase, 1960
	91	A Ballad of Life	n.d.
		Early holograph draft Purchase, 1956
	92	Prologue to "The Broken Heart:" autograph manuscript poem with the printed version from "A Channel Passage" and other poems, London	1904
		Purchase, 1965
	93	"Carol for Charity:" manuscript	1905 Nov 24
		Purchase, 1989
	94-95	"Channel Passage" (proof sheets)	1904
		Gift, 1956
	96	Hymn to Proserpine: autograph manuscript, initialed, with 52 lines of an early draft	n.d.
		Purchase, 1947
	97	"In Memory of Barry Cornwall", AMs	1874 Oct 14
		Purchase, 1964
	98	"A Jacobite's Farewell, 1715" AMs	1888-92
		Purchase, 1965
	99	Holograph draft of "A Leave Taking"	n.d.
		Purchase, 1956
	100	"O little song," manuscript poem	n.d.
		Purchase, 1958
	101	"Olive," in the English Illustrated Magazine	1888 Oct
		Accompanied by AMs correction in stanzas vi-vii Purchase, 1965
	102	Holograph manuscript draft "Song" from "The Sisters"	n.d.
		Purchase, 1956
	103	Prologue to "A Very Woman," AMs poem with printed version	n.d.
		Purchase, 1965
	104	"What is death?" AMS poem	n.d.
		Accompanied by "No sweeter thing than children's ways and wills" Purchase, 1964
	PROSE
		"Ce Qui Peut se Passer Dans un Cab Safety:" autograph manuscript story 1860-61
		Apparently a fragment of a chapter of "La Fille du Policeman" Gift, 1967
		See: Volume 4, folder 116
	105	"Charles Reade:" autograph manuscript signed with corrections and addition in the author's hand	n.d.
	106	"Dedicatory Epistle:" holograph manuscript dedicatory epistle to the first collected edition of his Poems, London	1904
		Purchase, 1957
	107	Typed copy, dedicatory epistle of the first collected edition of his poems	[1904]
		Purchase, 1956
	108	Mr. Whistler's Lecture on Art: facsimile of the autograph manuscript, signed	n.d.
		This facsimile was issued with the following note: 'This essay is said to have caused the estrangement between Whistler and Swinburne, which continued until Whistler's death' Purchase, 1946
	109	The Work of Robert Browning: autograph manuscript essay [incomplete]	n.d.
		Accompanied by a manuscript note in the hand of Thomas J. Wise Purchase, 1950
	110	Holograph Manuscript: "Comment on Lockhart's Life of Scott"	n.d.
		Purchase, 1956
	111	Holograph manuscript: "Notes on Herodotus"	n.d.
		Purchase, 1954
	112	List of Titles of Poems headed "Selections" with revisions on a sheet of blue paper	n.d.
		Also part of an Essay with references to Marlowe, Keats and Shelley, on a half sheet of paper and other manuscript material
		Purchase


Series III.		Philip M. Neufeld Swinburne Material
Box	Folder		Date
		English Poems: manuscript, working drafts, some revisions	[1868-87]
		Includes fragment (1L.) of early version of [Atlanta in Calydon] Purchase, 1995
		See: Volume 5, folder 117
		Literary manuscripts	n.d.
		Includes [William Collins]: manuscript; "Short Notes on English Poets:" manuscript; an untitled and incomplete work on poetry: manuscript; "On Dramatic Poetry:" manuscript; [Le Cenci:] manuscript Purchase, 1995
		See: Volume 6, folder 118
		"Philip Massinger, An Essay:" manuscript with correction and revisions	n.d.
		Purchase, 1995
		See: Volume 7, folder 119
	113	St. Dorothy: poem manuscript with revisions and emendations	n.d.
		Purchase, 1995
	114	"Trafalgar Day:" poem manuscript	1895 Oct 21
		Purchase, 1995
		Theophile de [Viau]
	115	Manuscript with deletions and emendations, [London]	[1862?]
		Purchase, 1995
	115a	Portfolio, with bookplates of Jerome Kern and John Stuart Groves	n.d.
		Purchase 1995


		Oversize
Box	Folder		Date
4	116	"Ce Qui Peut se Passer Dans un Cab- Safety": autograph manuscript story	[1860-61]
5	117	English Poems: manuscript, working drafts, some revisions	[1868-87]
		Includes fragment (1L.) of early version of [Atlanta in Calydon]
6	118	Literary manuscripts	n.d.
		Includes [William Collins]: manuscript; "Short Notes on English Poets:" manuscript; an untitled and incomplete work on poetry: manuscript; "On Dramatic Poetry:" manuscript; [Le Cenci:] manuscript
7	119	"Philip Massinger, An Essay:" manuscript with correction and revisions	n.d.


Series IV.		Additions Since August 1999
Box	Folder		Date
8	120	Manuscript of "The Garden of Proserpine" in an unidentified hand	n.d.
		Sheets marked with page numbers in printer's red pencil.
		Acc : 20010131-c
	121	ALS to [Alfred Ainger?] ; The Pines, Putney Hill, S.W.	1886 Feb 25
		Concerning Swinburne's collection of Charles Lamb materials.
		Acc : 20030205-m
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