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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

BOOK V.

1822-1828. ET. 47-53.

THE IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS.

1. Friends in Italy and England. 11. The Manuscript on its way. III. A Publisher found. IV. What the First Volume contained. V. What the Second Volume contained. VI. How the Book was received. VII. The Southey Correspondence. VIII. Family Letters. IX. New Series of Conversations. X. Contents of the New Series.

I. FRIENDS IN ITALY AND ENGLAND.

"Julius Hare will have the kindness to put this letter "into the post-office when he reaches London. I have "long expected to see Mr. Kenyon, in hopes of reading your new poem, of which I have heard not indeed many but very high eulogies." These are the opening lines of the first letter written to Southey by Landor, early in 1822, after Florence had become his settled abode; and in the whole of his later life there are not two pleasanter figures than the friends it names.

It was not however Julius, but Augustus Hare, to

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