SD2320. Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn Linton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 339.

[Florence]

[ca. 10 January 1860]

… The Brownings are gone to Rome, where they will remain until May. She continues in her feeble state of health, and I sadly fear there is little hope of much amendment. … It was painful and to me to be driven from my beautiful house, my pictures, and my books. Even these, promist to Browning for me, after half a dozen letters from him, and now refused—even the copies of my Works and my manuscripts of several years. …

Publication: R.H. Super, “Landor’s ‘Dear Daughter,’ Eliza Lynn Linton,” PMLA, 59 (December 1944), 1070.

Manuscript: Pierpoint Morgan Library.

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