"The proprietor would be fully indemnified for his purchase by
ten years' labor. France and England will not permit their
commerce with the Southern States to be interrupted much
longer. It has caused great discontent in Manchester and Leeds,
where the artificers suffer grievously from want of employment.

".... May you continue to improve in health as the warmer
weather advances. Mine will not allow me to hope for many more
months of life, but I shall always remember you, and desire
that you also will remember

"W. S. LANDOR."

"January, 1863.

".... Your account of your improved health is very satisfactory
and delightful to me. Hardly can I expect to receive many such.
This month I enter on my eighty-ninth year, and am growing
blind and deaf.... I hope you may live long enough to see the
end of your disastrous civil war. Remember, the Southrons are
fighting for their acknowledged rights, as established by the
laws of the United States. Horrible is the idea that one man
should be lord and master of another. But Washington had
slaves, so had the President his successor. If your government
had been contented to decree that no slave henceforth should be
imported, none sold, none disunited from his family, your
Northern cause would be more popular in England and throughout
Europe than it is. You are about to see detached from the Union
a third of the white population. Is it not better that the
blacks should be contented slaves than exasperated murderers or
drunken vagabonds? Your blacks were generally more happy than
they were in Africa, or than they are likely to be in America.
Your taxes will soon excite a general insurrection. In a war of
five years they will be vastly heavier than their amount in all
the continent of Europe. And what enormous armies must be kept
stationary to keep down not only those who are now refractory,
but also those whom (by courtesy and fiction) we call free.

"I hope and trust that I shall leave the world before the end
of this winter. My darling dog, Giallo, will find a fond
protectress in ----.... Present my respectful compliments to
Mrs. F., and believe me to continue

"Your faithful old friend,