Autograph Manuscript signed Walter Savage Landor of an untitled essay on the CRIMEAN WAR, probably intended as a Letter to the Editor of THE ATLAS newspaper

by Walter Savage Landor

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One page, working draft, densely written in ink on one side of single sheet of foolscap, with several deletions and corrections. Docketed at bottom in a different hand: Atlas Newspaper, May 5th, 1855 . 1 vols. Folio. Very good. cf. Wise, A LANDOR LIBRARY, p. 82, No. 10, for a similar letter of April 7. Item #222497 A scathing attack on the conduct of the Crimean War, one of many letters addressed by Landor to the London newspapers during the

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