Item 153 - Copy of part of letter from Algernon Charles Swinburne to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, 10 Dec 1865

22a Dorset (corrected from Dover and 'Dovet?') Street, W. (on Wallington headed paper). - Thanks Lady and Sir Walter Trevelyan for their great kindness and defence of him against the 'villainy of fools and knaves'; this falls upon others as undeserving as himself, and he recently defended a mutual friend against the charge of having 'boasted aloud of murdering his own illegitimate children' - who did not exist.

Published in Swinburne, A., Gosse, E., & Wise, T. (1918). The letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne / edited by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise. London: Heinemann, p. 41 and Swinburne, A., & Lang, C. (1959). The Swinburne letters (Yale edition of the Swinburne letters). New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 140.