Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet and novelist: autograph note, signed, to Miss Dutton, who is known to have painted a portrait miniature of the writer. London, [1837?].

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Manuscript in ink on white notepaper, 105 x 115 mm; written entirely in the hand of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and signed by her at the foot Yours in great haste but most truly, L. E. Landon , the note is addressed to My dear Miss Dutton , and is simply headed Friday , without any further date; laid down on a section cut from a leaf removed from a nineteenth-century autograph album (see note on provenance below), with an annotation by the album s compiler at lower right; some mild wrinkling from when the note was mounted, otherwise well preserved. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (aka L.E.L.) (1802-1838) was an English poet and novelist sometimes referred to as the female Byron , whose work influenced such writers as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, among many others in Britain and the United States. This signed autograph note by Landon has never been published. It is addressed to My dear Miss Dutton , whom Landon asks whether a meeting tomorrow will suit: If it will, home[?] but use your own convenience (i.e. Landon will be home all that day, and she invites Miss Dutton to visit whenever convenient). There can be little doubt the note is addressed to the London artist Miss Dutton, whose portrait miniature of Landon was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838 (see Richard Walker, Regency Portraits , National Portrait Gallery, 1985, no. 842). However, her miniatures are only recorded in catalogues of the time under the name Miss Dutton . Much more is k

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