BIB_ID
300093
Accession number
MA 769.17
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1858 Mar. 18].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
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 "Father."
With postmark and stamp.
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 "Father."
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Asking where he can send the £20 he wants to give her as a wedding present; wishing her happiness in her marriage; advising her not to be "fastidious about furniture"; mentioning a letter he wrote to the Times in which he spoke on behalf of [Felice] Orsini [who had just tried to assassinate Napoleon III].
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