(Np?) Walter Savage Landor

[Michael Bailey]

Glenn mentioned:
>  -- http://www.anders.thulin.name/RAW/Colvin_Landor.utf8
>  Untitled (Sidney Colvin: Landor)

I pasted that into WordsEx.
I am loving the green background and autoscroll.
The instructions are good, too...every time I use it, which
isn't often enough yet, I learn a little more.

This Landor fella, was he a Pynchon-caliber writer?
Many of his peers seem to have thought so.  He didn't
even get honourable mention in my Victorian Lit survey class:
eminence grise?  Or, too Whiggish?  (that sounds moldy and
conservative, but the biographer reminds me they were the
English who supported the French Revolution) -- Lived most
of his life in Italy, silence, exile & cunning...

was regarded @ Oxford as a mad rebel because he
didn't powder his hair...which actually meant something politically
back then (Whigs again)

Apparently represented by a character
in Bleak House and was godfather to one of Dickens's kids (not to
mention lived with Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning in Italy)
also contributed friendly proofreading to Dickens? (see below)

Available on Abebooks:
Autograph letter, signed, no date, to Charles Dickens.
Landor, W.S. (Walter Savage).
 Price: US$ 1000.00
[
Book Description: The letter in full: "Dear Bozzie, I am delighted
to receive your note. There has been lying on my table a package
containing the two books you kindly lent me long ago. The day before
yesterday I saw Engles(?) here, and he told me he did not know exactly
your address. I found only one word, not to alter but to omit. Believe me
sincerely yours, W.S. Landor. I leave Bath tomorrow for the summer."