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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : [Bath], to Eliza Lynn Linton, [1858 May 29].

BIB_ID
300174
Accession number
MA 769.49
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1858 May 29].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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.
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Telling her that "nothing on earth is so precious to [him] as [her] affection"; noting the curative effects of rubgy for her sickly son; describing his study habits in school; mentioning Household Words, Charles Dickens' periodical.