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Call Number:
MSS 59
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Title(s):
Edward Lear letter to Miss Cobden
Date:
1881 March 15
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Correspondence
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 7
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:
The 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 remembers a past meeting with Miss Cobden and arranges for a future meeting, saying he will show her some drawings, including possibility “Damascus.” No watermark.
Additional Notes:
Written in black ink.
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 11 x 9 cm
Genre:
Correspondence , Pen and ink drawings, and Lists
Subject Terms:
Description and travel
Moore, 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
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896663
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896663?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1