[ Augustus Jessopp; Landor ] Autograph Letter Signed "A Jessopp" to [ Stephen Wheeler ] about Walter Savage Landor.

Author: 
Augustus Jessop (1823–1914), cleric and writer
Publication details: 
[headed] Scarning Rectory, East Dereham, 19 July 1902.
£120.00
SKU: 21964

Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. "Yes! I am y[our] man or whatever of y[our] who while still [?] jolly twenties sent almost my earliest printed brochure to Landpor & was surprised enough [& pleased as Punch!] to see his reply to in Frazer's [sic] Magazine [..]." He no longer has copies of the Magazine or the privately printed item he send ("piece of presumption") which concerned spelling in C17th writers - "everyone spelt as he pleased" so it should be modernised. "I was a great admirer and a great reader of Landor in those days of my [sweet?] youth" even reading the difficlt Latin poems "which tried my patience" [and] "made me almost rurn against the grand old heathen.- Are there any survivors of that extinct (?) race of pure heathens among us now? Landor & Peacock and Beckford and (I suspect) Basil Montagu and half a dozen others the like of whom are never heard of now-a-days-?" He hopes to meet up and "shall be glad to see you; though I know almost nothing about Landor now- Our first loves - Alack! - are so often forsaken for the younger nymphs - or Satyrs? - It's all my will for Virgil to pretend that Dido cut Aeneas up there among the dazzling ones [...]" Note: This letter was withg other letters about Landor addressed to the editor of Landor's letters, Stephen Wheeler.