BIB_ID
300102
Accession number
MA 769.22
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1858 Aug.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.1 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 "old 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 "old Father."
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Telling her that he is now at his "Fiesolan villa" after spending time in Boulogne and Genoa; describing his journey as "tiresome"; commenting on the libel action against him; noting that he is "twenty years older than [he] was twenty days ago"; mentioning "proof sheets of [his] Hellenics."
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