Palmer (Samuel, landscape painter and etcher, 1805-81) 5 Autograph Letters signed, four to John Linnell jnr. (1821-1906, artist) and one to William Linnell (1826-1906 painter), 12pp., 8vo, Kensington & Furze Hill, Redhill, Surrey, 1860-64 where dated, the letter to William Linnell, from 6 Douro Place [Kensington], August 1861, bids the Linnells farewell on their departure for Italy, "... I hope you will fall upon the like now and then in Italy and see something which we did not, the best Italian Society. Their 'best society', in the best sense, is sometimes to be found where the shepherd in Virgil found love - among the rocks ... But you will lose sight of factory chimneys for a time, and see the olives and vintages and 'slow herdsman' of Virgil!", and asking for advice on how to raise a loan or mortgage to enable him to buy or lease Furze Hill House, 5 February 1864, "[I] should not like anything to transpire at present beyond the family, as whatever betrays my want of wealth to the people of Red Hill & Reigate, though not in the least really to my discredit, may be professionally injurious... ," with a page of calculations dated 1864 regarding the expense of becoming a yearly tenant of the property (£51 p.a. payable to Mr Nicholson), probably in John Linnell's hand, folds.

⁂ The Palmers had already been living in Furze Hill House for two years: '[They] moved in May 1862 to the rented property, Furze Hill House, Mead Vale, Redhill. Later in 1864, the house was bought by [John] Linnell [snr.] from John Fisher, a local builder, and given to his son John [Linnell jnr.], who continued to lease to the Palmers. The rent was £75 a year. ...' (The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister, Oxford 1874, vol 2, page 649n). The present letters are apparently unpublished.