EARLY UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('A.C. Swinburne'), to his sister Alice ('My dearest Ally'), written from Tintagel, where he finished Atlanta, containing a lyrical description of his surroundings, explaining that he is 'still quite disabled & closely confined & very worse still more dull' [having sustained an injury to his foot], but had the winter not set in he would stay and enjoy the sea air rather than return to London 'as I am doubtless a wrecked pig in appearance & reality', and regretting having imposed upon and delayed his companion the painter J.W. Inchbold, 4 pages, octavo, the last page a little browned in the top right-hand corner, Tintagel, 26 October [1864]
EARLY UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('A.C. Swinburne'), to his sister Alice ('My dearest Ally'), written from Tintagel, where he finished Atlanta, containing a lyrical description of his surroundings, explaining that he is 'still quite disabled & closely confined & very worse still more dull' [having sustained an injury to his foot], but had the winter not set in he would stay and enjoy the sea air rather than return to London 'as I am doubtless a wrecked pig in appearance & reality', and regretting having imposed upon and delayed his companion the painter J.W. Inchbold, 4 pages, octavo, the last page a little browned in the top right-hand corner, Tintagel, 26 October [1864]
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