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Theodore Watts-Dunton, the man who had looked after Swinburne in his later years, died at The Pines on 6 June. On publication of Wise's A Swinburne Library of 1925, the TLS reviewer was to write: 'there was nothing Swinburne would not keep and nothing Watts-Dunton would not sell – provided Mr Wise with such an opportunity as perhaps no collector ever had before. In these pages we see how he took it; watching and waiting and striking, immensely resourceful, like some beneficent bird of prey' (Collins, p. 225). See also Wise's letter to Watts-Dunton above.