Two autograph letters signed ("AC Swinburne") to his sister Alice ("My dearest Ally"), giving an ecstatic description of his stay in Tintagel ("...clear sunlight overhead, & violent wind running up the chines & gullies of rock, and the grass waving & blowing over the edge of the cliff... you stand out on a headland with deep sea in front & to right & to left & see nothing before you but as it were the sudden end of a green field...") and pondering on Landor's recent death, asking if she could send him the Times obituary ("...I brought a vol. of his prose down here & my friend who had never read him before now thinks there is no modern book like it..."), 11 pages, 8vo, blank section under signature removed from the first letter, minor dust-staining, Tintagel, 14 and 26 October [1864]
Two autograph letters signed ("AC Swinburne") to his sister Alice ("My dearest Ally"), giving an ecstatic description of his stay in Tintagel ("...clear sunlight overhead, & violent wind running up the chines & gullies of rock, and the grass waving & blowing over the edge of the cliff... you stand out on a headland with deep sea in front & to right & to left & see nothing before you but as it were the sudden end of a green field...") and pondering on Landor's recent death, asking if she could send him the Times obituary ("...I brought a vol. of his prose down here & my friend who had never read him before now thinks there is no modern book like it..."), 11 pages, 8vo, blank section under signature removed from the first letter, minor dust-staining, Tintagel, 14 and 26 October [1864]
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