Excerpt from Love’s Cross-Currents: A Year’s Letters
His Novel in thirty Letters with its Prologue of five Chapters, was originally published in a short-lived London weekly, The Tailer, during the period from August asth to December 29th, 1877. It was issued under the pseudonym Mrs. Horace Manners, and while no doubt whatever exists as to its authorship, as one may easily discover from Mr. Wise’s Bibliography, the work has never been publicly acknowledged by Mr. Swinburne.
Our reprint is made from a copy of le Tat Formerly owned by Frederick locker-lampson. On a fly leaf he has noted in pencil: I should think this would some day be thought a curious book. It is never likely to be republished. F. L. A little lower on the same page he also makes known an interesting fact: I once had the ms. Swinburne lent it me, and I think it has been a good deal altered.
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