BIB_ID
300063
Accession number
MA 769.1
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1860] Aug. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
Includes manuscripts of two poems -- "The poet who sleeps" and "The poet wide-awake" -- with the following note: "Do what you will with these verses -- my name or not."
Part of a collection of letters from Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn Linton. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 769 for details.
Part of a collection of letters from Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn Linton. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 769 for details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Thanking her for publishing his "Letters to Kossuth and Garibaldi"; discussing Sappho, Felicia Hemans, Thomas Campbell, and others; noting that in literature "the Greeks never overload, but too often drive dull oxen yoked to an empty crate"; mentioning some misprints in his Letter to Garibaldi.
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