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Addendum: A New Landorian Manuscript

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Robert F. Metzdorf
Robert F. Metzdorf*
Affiliation:
The University of Rochester
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A new manuscript of Walter Savage Landor's pamphlet, Mr. Landor's Remarks on a Suit Preferred against Him (London [George Jacob Holyoake], 1859), has recently been found in the Charles A. Brown Collection of Autographs and Manuscripts in the University of Rochester Library. A study of this new material led to the writing of Dr. Super's article, and a description of the document is included here in order to give details which were not strictly germane to the broader treatment. The manuscript, which bears the title, “Mr. Landor's Remarks on his Trial for Libel,” is of importance in that it is revised by Landor and contains unprinted passages of his private defence.

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PMLA , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , September 1941 , pp. 755 - 757
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1941

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1 Comparisons with the printed version were made from a film of a proof copy in the British Museum (Ashley 3545); the full title-page reads: Mr. Landor's Remarks / on a / Suit Preferred against Him, / at the / Summer Assizes in Taunton [i.e. Bristol], 1858, / Illustrating the / Appendix to his Hellenics. / [Device of Holyoake & Company] / 1859. The imprint was removed before publication. The manuscript is written on both sides of eight gilt-edged, ruled sheets measuring 27.4× 19.4 cm. each. Each side is numbered.

* It was intended for her protegee, but she took it for herself, and persuaded me to buy a lighter one for her protegee in Melsom Street, unwilling that Wright should see her manoeuvre.2

2 In the note, the words “lighter one” are added in Landor's hand; the scribe left space for the addition. This suggests that the scribe was copying from a difficult original draft in Landor's writing. In the text, “placing her hand in mine” is added by Landor; the last “surely” is cancelled by him.