Lear, Edward, 1812–1888, Edward Lear letter to Edmund Woodthorpe, 1877 August 28
- Call Number:
- MSS 59
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
- Title(s):
- Edward Lear letter to Edmund Woodthorpe
- Date:
- 1877 August 28
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 5
- 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, his plans having fallen through, writes to Edmund Woodthorpe to suggest he come to Woodthorpe’s house “in the wilderness,” and to tell him that he will leave a copy “my last Book of Nonsense” for him at the specified address.
- Additional Notes:
- Written in black ink. On paper watermarked "Joynson Fine."
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 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:
- Lear, Edward, 1812-1888Woodthorpe, Edmund
- 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/2896661
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896661?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1