Excerpt from The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne: With Some Personal Recollections IN the following pages an attempt is made, by means of a selection from a mass of Swinburne correspondence, to picture some of Swinburne's interests, tastes, and idiosyncrasies, from 1869 to about ten years before his death. The writers also have tried in a slight personal sketch at the close of the book to give some idea of Swinburne's life at The Pines down to the time of his last illness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.