Whittington Henry Landon manuscript material : 4 items, 1839-1842

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Whittington Henry Landon manuscript material : 4 items, 1839-1842

ยท To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Jan 1839 : (BLES 3.252) : from 4 Lincoln's Inn Fields : begins, "I will have the honour of waiting upon your Ladyship tomorrow evening. I have this morning heard from Lord Munster ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Nov 1839 : (BLES 3.253) : from 15 Hyde Park Street : begins, "If I desired your Ladyship's kindness in anything which related to the memory of my sister, so generously was it extended to me formerly, that all hesitation to intrude on her account would at once be removed." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Nov 1839 : (BLES 3.254) : from 15 Hyde Park Street : begins, "I ventured to wait upon your Ladyship, thinking that I should thus give less trouble ..."; also including, "Your Ladyship's kindness has been to me, since I lost my sister, as the sound of the fountain on the ear in the desert ..."; with an excised letter cover address panel. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jan 1842 : (BLES 3.255) : from 3 Devonport Street, Oxford Terrace, London : begins, "The kind interest which your Ladyship ever took in my late sister, and the countenance which you were pleased to lend me on a former occasion, makes me entertain the hope that your kindness will not condemn me as intrusive in soliciting your patronage ..."; with the stamped envelope, with green wax seal.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7999598

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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