Lear, Edward, 1812–1888, Edward Lear letter to Mr. (?) Dyer, 1878 May 7
- Call Number:
- MSS 59
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
- Title(s):
- Edward Lear letter to Mr. (?) Dyer
- Date:
- 1878 May 7
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 6
- 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 Mr. Dyer asking that they leave a frame where he might retrieve it. He remembers Mr. Dyer’s purchase of a drawing and refers him to another—“Morn Broadened on the Borders of the Dark.”
- Additional Notes:
- Written in black ink, on black-bordered mourning paper with watermark "J D L & Co."
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 14 x 21 cm, folded to 14 x 11 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, 1812-1888
- 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/2896662
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896662?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1