BIB_ID
300069
Accession number
MA 769.3
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1862 Jan.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Date is from R.H. Super's article about Landor's letters to Linton.
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.
Signed "old Father."
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.
Signed "old Father."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Regretting that his money is tied up in chancery because he would like to help her financially; complaining that his wife and children treated him with unkindness and cut down a hedge that protected him from the sun; saying that he gave the house in Tuscany to his eldest son; reporting that the bishop Spenser compared his family's treatment of him to King Lear; discussing Shakespeare and [G.P.R.] James.
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