Autograph Letter Signed "A C Swinburne" to his brother, Edward, with envelope, including reference to "Yanks", relaxing into a sense of humour..

Three pages, 8vo, bifiolium, final page laid down on card, as is the envelope addressed in his hand, text legible and complete: "Your protégé & Mr Cowen's has not tracked me iinto the wilds of Oxfordshire where I am staying for ten days or so on a visit to Jowett [Master of Balliol] - and as Watts [-Dunton, companion] & I are going to the seaside the week after next I date say I may escape the jaws of the Garibaldian [?] - which a rather mixed lot (as Yanks say) they is [sic] and will be. I think Sairey [Gamp from Chuzzlewit?] would have stigmatized it as a bage haction on your part to give your brother's addredge anywheres in this wally of the shadder to one who was born an Outalien [?] & will (unquestionably) please himself; but I shall not let the camiscia rossa [Paoli poems?] sit upon me to any considerable extent. Seriously if he is a deserving party I should think he might find friends abler to give him a shove than I. - but if he comes to me I shall either take a leaf out of your book & tell him to move on to some of my friends in London or else apply to them for information. | Your affectionate brother | ACSwinburne". His brother has apparently given his address to someone, perhaps an Italian poet visiting England (and a supporter of Garibaldi).