BIB_ID
300150
Accession number
MA 769.42
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1859 Sept.?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 6.9 x 21 cm
Notes
Approximate 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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Saying that it grieves him that he will "never see [her] and England again"; noting that he has "assigned over to [his] son all [his] property"; complaining about his son; stressing that he could return to England if he paid the "1500 [he] was condemned to" [pay the Yescombes following the verdict in their libel case], but he "would rather go and die in Siberia than break [his] word and resolution"; discussing visitors in Siena.
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