BIB_ID
300114
Accession number
MA 769.24
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1860] June 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
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."
Year is from R.H. Super's article about Landor's letters to Linton.
Signed "Father."
Year is from R.H. Super's article about Landor's letters to Linton.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Apologizing for misdirecting some letters to her; wishing she experienced "fewer painful circumstances"; asking her to write to him often; insisting that he will pay the postage on her letters to him; noting that he is rereading Shakespeare's plays; mentioning [Friedrich von] Schlegel.
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