Edward Lear, letter to unknown recipient from Barzanò, Monza, of 28 July 1886:
The Post brings me a letter from the Tennyson Poet folk – about the “Break break” — & the “Lines to E.L.” And I think it would interest you to know what is written on the subject…
The other letter shown in the lot listing seems to be unrelated.
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It certainly interested Ruth Pitman who gave us the very rich ‘Edward Lear’s Tennyson’, Carcanet Press, 1988, 200 pages full of illustrations.
I’d also like to know what the Tennyson Poet folk had to say about his arrangements of those two poems.
Or was it about Lear’s illustrations for those poems?
Lear really stretched things when he tied some of his work to some bits of poems. The correspondence between the two is sometimes a joke. But it’s fun watching him hurry through the operation to set up a phony symmetry.