Lear, Edward, 1812–1888, Edward Lear letter to Annie Adams Fields, 1881 May 29
- Call Number:
- MSS 59
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
- Title(s):
- Edward Lear letter to Annie Adams Fields
- Date:
- 1881 May 29
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 8
- 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 Fields with condolences for the death of her husband, James Thomas Fields. He mentions that he has recently received several papers describing Fields’s life, and he asks that she convey her thanks to the people who sent them (though he is not sure who that is). Lear closes his letter, writing, “you have the memories of golden hours passed with him who is gone for a time. So that in writing these lines I feel less sad than I might do in many similar cases.”
- Additional Notes:
- Written in black ink. Accompanied by a typescript transcription of the letter.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter ; 21 x 27 cm, folded to 21 x 14 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Pen and ink drawings, and Lists
- Subject Terms:
- DeathDescription and travelMoore, Thomas, 1779-1852. By that lake, whose gloomy shore
- Associated Places:
- Mediterranean Region
- Associated People/Groups:
- Fields, Annie, 1834-1915Fields, 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/2896664
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896664?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1