BIB_ID
106731
Accession number
MA 1617.112
Creator
Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1881?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.5 x 13.2 cm
Notes
The fragment is missing the first part of the letter and thus the letter is undated. The reference to the newly published "Landor" suggests the year as 1881 when Colvin's biography of Walter Savage Landor was published.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Asking for his opinion of his biography of Walter Savage Landor saying "I hope you have got Landor before this : but the copies which go out to my friends will be a little bit later than the first issue thro the booksellers...I shall be most curious to hear how you like the thing when you see it : a criticism I expect is that it has evidently been thrown off easily : which I suppose is about the best proof that could be had that one's sweat and blood have not been spent upon it altogether in vain;" adding, in a postscript, that he is delighted to hear about Henley's brother, Anthony.
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