Manuscripts

Edward Wilson Landor

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1867-1870
Call number: mssHM 27238-27328
Creator: Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Aurelia and James Lee Harlan, September 1963.

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.

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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.

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Frederic Chapman

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Other authors, photographs, and newspaper clippings

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Walter Savage Landor correspondence

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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.

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Photographs

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Photographs of Walter Savage Landor and John Forster's library.

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Edward Wilson Landor

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