BIB_ID
300071
Accession number
MA 769.4
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[ca. 1859-1860].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.6 cm
Notes
Approximate 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
Thanking her for her "magnificent eulogy"; saying that he no longer wishes to know the public's opinion of his work; mentioning Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning; discussing his trouble sleeping and the garden outside his lodgings; complaining that his son will not send him the books he wants.
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