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The letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne
The letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: deal. I reopen this to add that the two copies1 sent to my father's at Holmwood did arrive safe: as also one sent to Mr. Powell at Lee, LETTER XVIII To Lord L... more »ytton 22a, Dorset Street, Portman Square, W. August 6th, [1866]. Dear Lord Lytton, Your letter was doubly acceptable to me, coming as it did on the same day with the abusive reviews of my book 2 which appeared on Saturday. While I have the approval of those from whom alone praise can give pleasure, I can dispense with the favour of journalists. I thank you sincerely for the pleasure you have given me, and am very glad if my poems have given any to you. In any case, I, with the rest of the world, must remain your debtor without prospect of payment. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to accept your kind invitation,8 should it be convenient to you to accept me for a day or two in the course of the next fortnight. For some ten days or so I am hampered by engagements difficult to break even for a day. 1 Of Poems and Ballads. 2 Poems and Ballads, 1866. To stay at Knebworth and consult about the transfer of Poems and Ballads. Believe me, with many thanks for the kindness of your letter, Yours very truly, A. C. Swinburne. LETTER XIX To Lord Lytton 22a, Dorset Street, W. August ioth, [1866]. Dear Lord Lytton, I will come on the 16th if that day suits you. I shall be very glad to see Mr. For- ster, for whose works I have always felt a great admiration. I cannot tell you how much pleasure and encouragement your last letter gave me. You will see that it came at a time when I wanted something of the kind, when I tell you that in consequence of the abusive reviews of my book, the publisher (without consulting me, without warning, and without compensation) had actually withdraw...« less