BIB_ID
300122
Accession number
MA 769.30
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1860] Apr. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20 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."
The pages of the letter are bound out of order (MA 769.31 falls between parts 1 and 2 of MA 769.30).
Year from R.H. Super's article about Landor's letters to Linton.
Signed "Father."
The pages of the letter are bound out of order (MA 769.31 falls between parts 1 and 2 of MA 769.30).
Year 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
Instructing her to direct her letters to his full address; described his estranged wife as "wicked" and complaining that his family is withholding pictures from him; noting that James T. Fields "is desirous of publishing something" of his; discussing the "perfidy" of Napoleon III; mentioning various manuscripts and writing projects.
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