SD2125. Algernon Charles Swinburne to John Nichol

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 270 (in part).

Royal Pier Hotel, Ryde,

Isle of Wight,

December 13, 1857

My dear Nichol

I have good news for you about the Magazine. Our incompetent friend Mansell has not sold …

Morris’s account of Browning is one of the most amusing things I ever heard; he is especially fond, it appears, of introducing Aytoun into conversation and dissecting him with an operator’s delight, which must be grand to see.

Text: The Swinburne Letters, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (New Haven, Conn., 1959–62), 1, 12–14.

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