A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol 1 Classic Reprint

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That the Bibliography is both accurate and complete I am convinced. This satisfactory result is largely due to my amiable and continuous relations with the late Theodore watts-dunton. It is well known that in 1909 - 1910 watts-dunton, for very proper reasons, disposed of the mass of Swinburne's manuscripts which came into his possession upon the death of the poet. A very large proportion of these papers I acquired. Included among the documents which then became my property were the whole of such manuscripts as still remained unpublished, and I am glad to take this Opportunity Of expressing the gratitude I feel to my dead friend for the kindliness and goodwill he at all times exhibited in his transactions with me. He promised from the first that every thing unpublished should pass into my keeping, and this promise he loyally kept. He was well aware of the purpose for which I required the papers, and the reasons which made me anxious to secure them. With my project he was fully in sympathy, and to me it is a matter of constant regret that at the time of his death only the first few sheets Of the Bibliography were in type, and the proofs in his hands.

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