Symonds, John Addington (1840-1893), English poet and literary critic. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘John Addington Symonds’, Bristol, 16 September 1892, to Charles Kains-Jackson, expressing his sympathy at the death of Jackson’s mother, ‘I cannot fully express the depth of my sympathy with you in this sudden and overwhelming sorrow… To think that when we were walking on Friday through those fields by Falmouth harbour, and you were telling me about your home-life and Cecil [E. J. Castle, Jackson’s cousin] this tragedy should have been so near!’, and further indicating the various addresses he will be staying at as he visits friends, some light soiling and marks at head of first page, 2 pages on the first and third page of hotel stationery bifolium, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Charles Kains-Jackson (1857-1933), lawyer and editor of The Artist and Urainan; he became a later correspondent of Symonds. This letter is published in The Letters of John Addington Symonds (ed. Schueller and Peters), Vol. III, p. 748 (Letter 2031).
Symonds, John Addington (1840-1893), English poet and literary critic. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘John Addington Symonds’, Bristol, 16 September 1892, to Charles Kains-Jackson, expressing his sympathy at the death of Jackson’s mother, ‘I cannot fully express the depth of my sympathy with you in this sudden and overwhelming sorrow… To think that when we were walking on Friday through those fields by Falmouth harbour, and you were telling me about your home-life and Cecil [E. J. Castle, Jackson’s cousin] this tragedy should have been so near!’, and further indicating the various addresses he will be staying at as he visits friends, some light soiling and marks at head of first page, 2 pages on the first and third page of hotel stationery bifolium, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Charles Kains-Jackson (1857-1933), lawyer and editor of The Artist and Urainan; he became a later correspondent of Symonds. This letter is published in The Letters of John Addington Symonds (ed. Schueller and Peters), Vol. III, p. 748 (Letter 2031).
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