BIB_ID
300044
Accession number
MA 768.10
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1864] Aug. 1.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.5 cm
Notes
According to Landor, this letter was written "halfway to [his] eighty-second year" [1856]; the postmark reads 1864.
From Forster's Life of Dickens.
Part of a collection of Landor manuscripts that includes five autograph letters, four autograph poems, one autograph "imaginary conversation," and one drawing of Landor; items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 768.1-10).
Sent to R. Vogue, Esq. in Nottingham.
With postmark and seal.
From Forster's Life of Dickens.
Part of a collection of Landor manuscripts that includes five autograph letters, four autograph poems, one autograph "imaginary conversation," and one drawing of Landor; items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 768.1-10).
Sent to R. Vogue, Esq. in Nottingham.
With postmark and seal.
Summary
Saying that he doubts whether the recipient will be able to read his handwriting as he is "nearly blind as well as totally deaf"; sending him his autograph.
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