When in the summer of 1881 Sidney Colvin settled back to enjoy the praise of friends and reviewers for his short biography of Walter Savage Landor, his pleasure was rudely interrupted by a letter to the Athenaeum from a correspondent in Italy, headed “A Protest.” The correspondent, Mrs. Eliza Lynn Linton, objected (quite unjustly, as Colvin's pained reply pointed out) to his “curiously grudging spirit” in nelgecting her part in Landor's later life, and insisted on the “one honour which I regard as the most precious in my whole history, and the public recognition of which, when occasion offers, I claim as my right. I mean my long and close friendship with Walter Savage Landor.” Twelve years previously, when Forster had first published his biography of Landor, he too found himself beset for the same reason with a series of ill-tempered reviews by the same hand, one of them beginning, “The Life of Walter Savage Landor has yet to be written.” One can only guess how Mr. Malcolm Elwin's recent volume, Savage Landor, would have pleased her. Certain it is that Landor's friendship with her is worth tracing in detail, especially since his letters to her, for the most part unpublished, provide an important source of information about the last years of his life, and one which not even this most recent biographer has touched.