BIB_ID
300065
Accession number
MA 769.2
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1858] Oct. 28.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
Includes a manuscript of a poem (first line: "Widcombe! Few seek with thee their resting place").
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.
The poem is dated "October 28"; possible year is from Super.
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.
The poem is dated "October 28"; possible year is from Super.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Asking her to have 300 copies made of a "vindication" he has written in his defense [Landor had recently lost a libel case]; desiring her to circulate the vindication and "get it noticed." The poem on the verso expresses his wish to be buried at Widcombe.
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