Lear, Edward, 1812–1888, Edward Lear letter to unidentified recipient, 1863?
- Call Number:
- MSS 59
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
- Title(s):
- Edward Lear letter to unidentified recipient
- Date:
- 1863?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 3
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939, Gallup's collecting of Edward Lear material is described in: Gallup, Donald C. "Collecting Edward Lear." The Yale University Library Gazette 61, no. 3/4 (1987): 125-42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40858913. And in: Wilcox, Scott. Edward Lear and the art of travel. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2000.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Lear writes to a “sir,” asking that he review the attached advertisement for views, “in the Ionian Islands,” and offer assistance publicizing the series. The letter is written on a blank page of a prospectus for “Views in the Seven Ionian Islands; by Edward Lear” and includes a list of subscribers “already obtained.”
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 19 x 24 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Prospectuses, Correspondence , Pen and ink drawings, and Lists
- Subject Terms:
- Description and travelLear, Edward, 1812-1888. Views in the seven Ionian islandsMoore, Thomas, 1779-1852. By that lake, whose gloomy shore
- Associated Places:
- Ionian Islands (Greece)Mediterranean Region
- Associated People/Groups:
- Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
- Finding Aid Title:
- Edward Lear archive
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11283.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896659
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896659?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1