Book Description

Excerpt from Letters of Walter Savage Landor: Private and Public In acceding to your earnest request that some of my letters from my dear old friend, Walter Savage Landor, should see the light, I have consented to entrust them to you for selection, because we have agreed that they illustrate the genial and affectionate side of a nature which some have thought rugged, and this in a way not to be discerned in the published memoirs of his life. They cover nearly a quarter of a century. I could wish for the sake of those who read them that these letters to my family had been less extravagantly eulogistic; but if they had been too closely pruned, they would have lost something of their originality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.