Excerpt from Walter Savage Landor, Vol. 2 of 2: A Biography; 1822 1864 And by nearly the last remaining of the English resi dents of those days in Florence, where his own name will always be remembered with love and honour, it has been lately mentioned to me. I used, says Mr. Sey mour Kirkup, to see him and his friend Francis Hare together; and it was a constant struggle of competi tion and display between them; both often wrong, although men of strong memory. They used to have great disputes, mostly on questions of history. Hare avoided the classics, and Landor the sciences, above all, the 'exact, ' and all relating to numbers except dates, where, owing to his prodigious memory, he had generally the advantage when the other gave him the chance. Hare was of ten astounded at being corrected. He was thought infallible; and I remember our con sul-general at Rome calling him a monster of learning. But only the pleasantest side of all this was remembered When, on going to England with his wife in 1827, Francis had asked for an introduction to Southey, and Landor described him as among the kindest and most intimate friends he ever had, to say nothing of his learning, his wit, and the inexhaustible spirit and variety of his con versation. I owe him as much pleasure as I can give him, and none will be a greater than what these few lines will procure him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.