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Another Edward Lear Letter to Mrs Hankey

Posted on August 31, 2017 by

Edward Lear:  Autograph letter addressed to Mrs. Hankey, from Rendcomb Park, Cirencester, dated Sept. 1, 1872, 3pp. 8vo., written at speed in his characteristic hand, linking many of the words, concerning commissions for drawings, his movements and an account of a … Continue reading →

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An Edward Lear Letter to Mrs Thomson Hankey

Posted on August 29, 2017 by

Edward Lear: Autograph letter addressed to Mrs. Thomson Hankey, Brambridge Place, Winchester, dated 9 Sept. 1867, on blue paper, 2 pp. 4to, the first page nearly filled (c. 150 x 200mm) with a large drawing of Lear ensconced in a melon-bed … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear at 73½

Posted on September 13, 2016 by

Edward Lear. aet. 72.½ His cat Foss, aet 16.

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There was an Old Man with a Book

Posted on September 11, 2016 by

There was an old man with a Book — Who said, “Only look! Only look! — “Obsquation, — obsgration, — “At Waterloo station — Enquire if there ain’t such a book!” Limerick on the publication of Edward Lear’s Views in … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in 1884

Posted on September 10, 2016 by

Exact likeness of me and my cat Foss, 23 February, 1884. Private Collection, The Walthall Family. The Guardian (2012).

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Uncle Arly’s Tune (and a New Lear Self-Caricature)

Posted on May 29, 2016 by

In a recent post celebrating Edward Lear’s 204th brithday on the Untold Lives blog at the British Library Alexandra Ault, Curator of Manuscripts and Archives 1601-1850, posts a nice self-caricature of Lear and his cat Foss from a letter to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Letters to Ellen Rawson & Daughter

Posted on February 11, 2016 by

This is part of a collection of 11 letters Edward Lear wrote to Mrs. Ellen Rawsom and her daughter Constance which were sold at Sotheby’s on 10 December 2013. Does anyone know where they ended up? The catalogue description: SERIES … Continue reading →

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