xt7qjq0stw34_3819 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Addington Symonds letter to [Edward] Clifford text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Addington Symonds letter to [Edward] Clifford 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_37/Folder_72/Multipage13049.pdf 1871 October 8 1871 1871 October 8 
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Peal accession no. 10583b. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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 Oct.8,1871

Dear Clifford

Burn the unlucky poems & receive my thanks for what
you haVe said about them 8: about the nobler

hopes that out-soar such sordid things. You

see now why I could not render them up to
Soleman[?[] But in self explanation I ought to

tell you that these two studies are but detached
morsels of a long retrospect over the history

of this much-abused passion uh. I have expressed

in verse & wh Iintend to crown with the;ppsms

of the real & pure 8c human outcome to be restated
['3] in the future. The sexual relations have in
the past gone through similar aberrations 8c periods
0f abandonment to sin. Only our conscience has
been at least educated with reference to them:

not so as yet with reference to the other.

Again I beg you burn the pamphlet. And for
your frankness & your friendship believe me to
be ever most gratefully yours

JQAO Symonds _

Again thank you. I feel for nothing so grateful

as for sincere 8c loyal words. I am nevertheless

in the condition of one sorely rebuked & feel somehow
as if I .... lance had touched me. Yet I am

not self convicted of guilt. for fifyou suppose

that either of these poems is written in sympathy
with sin you mistake the voice of my art.

 

 SYMONDS, John Addington (who-1893)
Author and critic. Bristol.

A..L.S. to Edward Clifford. 8 Oct. 1871.
b, . (double sheet, octavo). With
embossed address 01‘ Clifton Hill House,
Clifton, Bristol.

He is most grateful to Clifford for his
understanding criticism, but asks him
to burn a pamphlet containing some poems.

The letter probably refers to an early,
privately printed pamphlet in which Symonds
published some work dealing with the then
forbidéen topic of homosexuality. He assures
Cliffod that if he thinks "that either of
these pOems is written in sympathy with

sin you mistake the voice of my art."