Supporting Documents

SD2616. Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn Linton

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 354 (in part).

[Florence]

December 1 [1862]

My dearest daughter,

Never until this day grieve me. The day before yesterday Browning sent me word that Mr Linton could not recieve the pictures. All the money I get from Englnd comes thro his hands and the woman’s where I lodge. I desired her to pay for the package and carriage of the heavy case. The package she did pay for, the carriage not. Browning is enabled by my brother Henry to advance the money. As my landlady was not informed, he recieved no part of the charge for conveyance of the case to London, but he will now answer for it. …

Publication: R.H. Super, “Landor’s ‘Dear Daughter,’ Eliza Lynn Linton,” PMLA, 59 (December 1944), 1081–82.

Manuscript: Pierpoint Morgan Library.

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