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Forty-one letters from Walter Savage Landor to various correspondents:

(a) numbers 1-6, his mother Elizabeth, née Savage (1811-28);
(b) numbers 7-28, his sisters Elizabeth and Ellen (1825-34);
(c) numbers 29-31, his brother Henry (1802-5);
(d) numbers 32-40, his friend the Reverend Walter Birch (1805-23);
(e) number 41, John Forster (1864);

Number 42 is a letter to Landor from his brother Robert Eyres Landor, dissuading him from his plan of becoming a citizen of France (1812).

Bibliography

Extracts from some of these letters appear in John Forster, Walter Savage Landor: a biography, 2 vols (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869), and in Rev. Edward H.R. Tatham, 'Some unpublished letters of W.S. Landor', Fortnightly Review, N.S., vol. 87 (January-June 1910).