4:2. #266 Philip Bourke Marston / Letter to A.C. Swinburne., 07/03/1884., bulk: 1884 - 1884

File — Box: 4, Folder: 2

Dates

07/03/1884.
Majority of material found in 1884 - 1884

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Extent

From the Series: 0.25 Linear Feet (Items relating to Philip Bourke Marston: autograph letters and manuscript by Marston; and research notes by John Mayfield.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Autograph letter signed from Philip Bourke Marston to Algernon Charles Swinburne (dated July 3, 1884, 3 pages). Reference to “looking forward with very keen pleasure” to reading the latter’s poem, “On a Country Road” (published in the Nineteenth Century, July 1884); and to reading various contemporary books, including Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883), which “gave me more pleasure than anything I have read in a long time.” Bourke also comments on “Miss Robinson’s last book, about which “there is much…that I like and a very great deal that I dislike. I loathe this realism.” The reference is likely to New Arcadia and Other Poems (1884), by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944). Includes autograph and typed notes by John Mayfield.