Autograph Letter Signed from Theodore Watts-Dunton, London, to Lady Colin


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Watts-Dunton writes that he tried to persuade Mr. Swinburne to send the recipient's letter to the Times, "a protest against the impudent barbarism that is going to be perpetrated at Stratford-upon-Avon but he does not rise to the occasion." He also discusses why he most of his work has been anonymous. Addressed from The Pines, 11 Putney Hill.




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Offering to buy the rights to Aylwin.




Christmas Hath One Favourite Place


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Watts-Dunton writes in response to a request for Christmas poetry. He also refers to a "well known portrait of Shakespeare on the folio of 1623." On letterhead from The Pine, Putney Hill, S.W. Addressed to Geo. F. Rapkin. With a manuscript poem, "Christmas Eve at the Mermaid Tavern," before publication (5 leaves). First line: Christmas hath one favourite place. Possibly an early draft of Christmas at the mermaid, a substantially different poem published in 1897.




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Morris inquires of Watts-Dunton if he has heard the rumor about the failure of the London and Westminster Bank and asks him to let Dante Gabriel Rossetti know because she believes he has an account with the bank. She invites Watts-Dunton to see her new house.




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Deals with the Kelmscott edition of Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon and the press's projected volume of poems by Watts-Dunton.




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Mrs. Leith (Algernon Swinburne's cousin, Mary Gordon) encloses a chapter of Reminiscences and asks for Watts-Dunton's feedback, and also asks after the progress on the Life. In a postscript, Leith responds to a previous query Watts-Dunton had made about Swinburne's humorous poems.




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Explains the connection between their play and D. G. Rossetti's poem, "The cup of water."







Autograph Letter Signed from A.C. Swinburne to Theodore Watts-Dunton


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Addressed "My dear Watts" and dated simply August 20. Swinburne mentions composing a poem in prose on the subject of Shakespeare's Cleopatra which, with his analysis of Hamlet and exposition of Iago, makes the third of the three best things in his book. Also discusses Halliwell-Phillipps' "services to Shakespeare & all Shakespeareans (not Sham)" and "the secret history & inner significance of Arden of Feversham."