A LETTER OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. [To nix Barron OF
711D " FiFROTATOB,"] SIR,—You may perhaps think that the name of the writer of the enclosed letter, which I have just found, is a sufficient reason for its publication. It has no date, but that of the book to which it refers (" Dry Sticks, Fagoted by Walter Savage Lander ") has that of 1857, and the letter must have been written at the beginning of that year or the end of 1856. It was addressed to Sir Henry Strachey, not Stracey, as Landor writes it here, though he gives it correctly in the printed verses. The spelling of " etil" in the letter, as of other words in the book, belongs to that crusade against wrong spelling which was carried on by Lander and his friends Thirlwall and Julius Hare. The letter Was written. from Bath, where Landor was then living.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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