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Peter Newell’s Portrait Autograph

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, Autograph Note Signed and with Original Sketch within a Second Signature. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Newell used similar signatures on the back covers of his books too. Heritage Auctions.

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Mrs Jayfer, Millais, Dicky Doyle and Wilkie Collins in an Edward Lear Letter

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Among the many subjects touched in the letter to Henry Bruce, Lord Aberdare transcribed below from the scans available on the Florida State University website, is Edward Lear’s statement that the second part of “Mr and Mrs Discobbolos” was suggested … Continue reading →

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An Edward Lear Letter to Wilkie Collins

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The friendship between Edward Lear, the Victorian poet of nonsense verses, and Wilkie Collins, the novelist, has long been well-known. Yet, strangely enough, it was a friendship of which, as Collins’ biographer tells us, “hardly a trace remains.”{1} We know … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Charles Kingsley

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

From Notes and Queries, n.s. 16.6 (Vol. 214), June 1969, pp. 216-217: An Edward Lear Letter to Charles Kingsley Apparently, Edward Lear and Charles Kingsley never became personally acquainted. No records are presently known to attest sucha relationship. However, after … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Cannes (1882)

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A view of Cannes Signed with monogram and dated ‘1882’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘Cannes’ (lower left). Watercolour and gum arabic. 16.5 x 26cm (6 1/2 x 10 1/4in). Sold together with a letter from the artist. The present lot … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s First Impressions of Malta (an unpublished letter)

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

[This previously unpublished letter to his elder sister Ann tells of Edward Lear’s leaving Italy because of the 1848 insurrections; he was on his way to Corfu, where he had been invited by G.F. Bowen. It also contains Lear’s first … Continue reading →

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A Day in the Studio with Edward Lear

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

Another previously unpublished letter Edward Lear sent to William Holman Hunt exactly 150 years ago (see Diary 6.x.64). This one contains a humorous description of a day in Lear’s London studio while he is trying to do some work. 15 … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Drops Holman Hunt’s Letters (An Unpublished Letter)

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

The following is a note Edward Lear sent to William Holman Hunt explaining what happened to two of Hunt’s letters Lear was supposed to post from London. There is a short reference to the accident in today’s diary entry (19.ix.64): … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Picks up a Candle and Goes to Bed

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

I found this on my hard disk; can anyone say where this letter to Gussie Bethell can be found? “The Author of the Book of Nonsense takes up his candle & goes to bed.” Edward Lear, letter to Augusta Bethell of … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear: An Unpublished Letter

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

A “signed two-page letter” by Edward Lear is being sold on eBay; it is pasted to the front end paper of the first American edition of the Nonsense Books (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888). It is an invitation to Mr. and Mrs. … Continue reading →

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