Lear, Edward, 1812–1888, Edward Lear letter to James Fields, 1870 October 8
- Call Number:
- MSS 59
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
- Title(s):
- Edward Lear letter to James Fields
- Date:
- 1870 October 8
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 4
- 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 James Fields, apologizing for not sending the “Curtis Phila sketch,” and explaining that “Mr. Bush” will ask Fields what the possibilities are for the “Corsica or Xmas book in America.” He closes with a wish to see Fields in Boston.
- Additional Notes:
- Written in black ink. Pasted (by a later owner) to a sheet of gray paper, 22 x 18 cm.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 14 x 13 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Pen and ink drawings, and Lists
- Subject Terms:
- Description and travelMoore, Thomas, 1779-1852. By that lake, whose gloomy shore
- Associated Places:
- Mediterranean Region
- Associated People/Groups:
- Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881Lear, 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/2896660
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896660?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1