Letter from John Forster, London, , to Walter Savage Landor, 1858 September 25 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Confirming that he has received three letters from Landor and has posted his enclosure and note to Mr. Nichol (i.e. Landor's Scottish publisher James Nichol); informing him that the item he sent for insertion in the newspaper could not be printed as it was considered libelous; denying Landor's accusation that he counseled Mr. Nichol to delay publication of his Hellenics, and including a transcribed portion of a letter he sent Mr. Nichol, confirming that the publisher had decided to postpone publication and had merely conferred with Forster on the matter after the fact; going on to write that while he agrees with him "as to the means in which your defence was conducted by Messrs Taylor & Williams" (a reference to the action for libel brought against him back in England by Mrs. Yescombe), he takes exception to Landor's statement that "your friends have caused you worse misery than your enemies", and categorically denies any knowledge of or involvement in the preparations for the trial, while asking that his friend "Do me the justice also to remember that I was no party to the promise made in your name that you would never again write against Mrs. Yescombe", and stating that the published statement was "solely & exclusively the work of Mr. Williams." With a postscript written by Forster on the inside flap of the accompanying envelope.