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An Illustrated Letter by Edward Lear

Posted on June 19, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

My transcript: 65. Oxford Terrace. 24th 23d Dear Mrs George, Thanks for your letter of this morning, & pray thank Maria for the Fez, wh: has just come safely. — It’s a duck of a Fez, & shall be stuck … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Letter to Lady Waldegrave (31 July 1877)

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Marco Graziosi

31. July. 1877 My dear Lady Waldegrave, I shall trouble you with this gnoat because the chances are that I shall not see you again before I go out of England, – if, (as I hope you may,) you will … Continue reading →

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A Letter by Edward Lear

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

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 … Continue reading →

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Letters to the Caetani Family (5)

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

[This is part of a series of previously-unpublished letters to Margaret Knight, who was married to Michelangelo Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, and to Ada Bootle-Wilbraham, married to Onorato Caetani, Michelangelo’s son, Prince of Teano and then Duke of Sermoneta. The … Continue reading →

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Letters to the Caetani Family (4)

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

[This is part of a series of previously-unpublished letters to Margaret Knight, who was married to Michelangelo Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, and to Ada Bootle-Wilbraham, married to Onorato Caetani, Michelangelo’s son, Prince of Teano and then Duke of Sermoneta. The … Continue reading →

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Letters to the Caetani Family (3)

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

[This is part of a series of previously-unpublished letters to Margaret Knight, who was married to Michelangelo Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, and to Ada Bootle-Wilbraham, married to Onorato Caetani, Michelangelo’s son, Prince of Teano and then Duke of Sermoneta. The … Continue reading →

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Letters to the Caetani Family (2)

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

[This is part of a series of previously-unpublished letters to Margaret Knight, who was married to Michelangelo Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, and to Ada Bootle-Wilbraham, married to Onorato Caetani, Michelangelo’s son, Prince of Teano and then Duke of Sermoneta. The … Continue reading →

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Letters to the Caetani Family (1)

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

[This is part of a series of previously-unpublished letters to Margaret Knight, who was married to Michelangelo Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, and to Ada Bootle-Wilbraham, married to Onorato Caetani, Michelangelo’s son, Prince of Teano and then Duke of Sermoneta. The … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Rebus Letter

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

I am not entirely convinced by the solution proposed by the auctioneer is correct, also see Mary Beard’s article from her TLS blog. Edward Lear, The Rebus Letter: I would be a great arse in writing should I not attempt … Continue reading →

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Three New Pieces of Nonsense by Edward Lear

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

The latest TLS (no. 6169 of 25 June 2021) contains three new Nonsense compositions by Edward Lear, found by Amy Wilcockson and Edmund Downey among the papers in the Charnwood Autograph Collection, British Library Add MS 70949, f. 239, f. … Continue reading →

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