BIB_ID
300116
Accession number
MA 769.26
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1862 May 12].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21 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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Musing on the lies children are taught; reminding her that he wants to send her "a couple of pictures"; explaining the difficulties of getting the paintings through the custom-house; telling her he is hiring a carpenter to box up the paintings.
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