Manuscripts

Walter Savage Landor letter to Leigh Hunt

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Description: Also incorporated in the letter is a poem of four verses on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1855.
Call number: mssHM 11716
Creator: Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of September 1940.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Walter Savage Landor

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, and some verses, written by Walter Savage Landor, most of which are to John Forster, from 1838 to 1858. There is one letter by John Forster, 1866 November 5; four letters by Landor’s Australian cousin, lawyer and writer Edward Wilson Landor, from 1867 to 1870; and a letter by English publisher Frederic Chapman to John Forster, 1869 May 7. There are also two folders with photographs and newspaper clippings.

mssHM 27238-27328

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Edward Wilson Landor

Manuscripts

mssHM 27238-27328

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Landor-Forster papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, and some verses, written by Walter Savage Landor, most of which are to John Forster, from 1838 to 1858. There is one letter by John Forster, 1866 November 5; four letters by Landor's Australian cousin, lawyer and writer Edward Wilson Landor, from 1867 to 1870; and a letter by English publisher Frederic Chapman to John Forster, 1869 May 7. There are also two folders with photographs and newspaper clippings.

mssHM 27238-27328

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Walter Savage Landor correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 110 letters from Walter Savage Landor; 95 are to his sister, Elizabeth Landor, and 15 are to his niece, Sophy Landor. There are also 35 letters from Elizabeth Landor to Walter Savage Landor and three from Sophy Landor to Walter Savage Landor. The collection also contains correspondence to and from Sophy Landor and others (98 pieces) about the affairs of Walter Savage Landor from 1858 and after. There are also a few manuscripts, and press clippings of Landor's poems and about the libel case, Yescombe v. Landor in 1858.

mssHM 31656-31909

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Walter Savage Landor letter to W. Jerwood

Manuscripts

mssHM 11713

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Hellas, a lyrical drama: manuscript

Manuscripts

Manuscript copy of the poem Hellas by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is in the hand of Shelley's friend Edward E. Williams, but with corrections by Shelley.

mssHM 329

Walter Savage Landor letter to Leigh Hunt

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