Lear (Edward, 1812-1888). English artist, illustrator, and author. A lengthy Autograph Letter Signed, 'Edward Lear', Villa Tennyson, Sanremo, c. 1884, to Mr Maine, written in occasionally idiosyncratic language, ‘I have the HenVellip [?envelope] of this ready to write to you, because I have a very unsatisfactory letter from Frank F[rank] Luckington; - his youngest boy - my god son, - being so unwell that Mr FL is obliged to take him away from London to the seaside’, later referring to a drawing, ‘Very possibly you do not remember seeing here, a drawing of Corfu: - it was down for a Mr Kettlewell - (“Wildman Kettlewell,” ...), well, I was just sending it off to Somersetshire, when comes a letter that Kettlewell and Mrs Kettlewell are on their way to the Bellevue next door to me, and will be here, to my very great pleasure, - sometime this week...’, telling of his trip to church and what a relief it is to ‘have a proper place of worship’, thanking him for his magazine, ‘I will read the paper on Cambridge silly bits presently’ asking that he does not go to Cairo without letting him know first and hoping that he might go with him to his old villa where ‘I should be glad to show you letters i have from Hogg the bookseller about Corsica and the Nonsense, and also one from the Consul at Geneva about my loss through the swindling people who took V. Emily and absquatulated’, telling to bring any friends he wants 'you may amuse by my Gallery’, mentioning his illness and breathlessness but saying that ‘at other times I flourish like a green baize tree’, with a footnote referring back to the silly bits and concluding, ‘only I distrust the proverb about “gripping fleas” in haste. That is a mistake. An experience of over 50 years in Italy and other little psyllic lands has taught me that slow movements with a wet fingertip, is the proper line of action’, a little spotting and soiling, 3 pages, 8vo, the final blank page pasted onto an old card album leaf with lower blank margin trimmed away (Quantity: 1) Mr Maine is probably a son of the jurist Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (1822-1888).
Lear (Edward, 1812-1888). English artist, illustrator, and author. A lengthy Autograph Letter Signed, 'Edward Lear', Villa Tennyson, Sanremo, c. 1884, to Mr Maine, written in occasionally idiosyncratic language, ‘I have the HenVellip [?envelope] of this ready to write to you, because I have a very unsatisfactory letter from Frank F[rank] Luckington; - his youngest boy - my god son, - being so unwell that Mr FL is obliged to take him away from London to the seaside’, later referring to a drawing, ‘Very possibly you do not remember seeing here, a drawing of Corfu: - it was down for a Mr Kettlewell - (“Wildman Kettlewell,” ...), well, I was just sending it off to Somersetshire, when comes a letter that Kettlewell and Mrs Kettlewell are on their way to the Bellevue next door to me, and will be here, to my very great pleasure, - sometime this week...’, telling of his trip to church and what a relief it is to ‘have a proper place of worship’, thanking him for his magazine, ‘I will read the paper on Cambridge silly bits presently’ asking that he does not go to Cairo without letting him know first and hoping that he might go with him to his old villa where ‘I should be glad to show you letters i have from Hogg the bookseller about Corsica and the Nonsense, and also one from the Consul at Geneva about my loss through the swindling people who took V. Emily and absquatulated’, telling to bring any friends he wants 'you may amuse by my Gallery’, mentioning his illness and breathlessness but saying that ‘at other times I flourish like a green baize tree’, with a footnote referring back to the silly bits and concluding, ‘only I distrust the proverb about “gripping fleas” in haste. That is a mistake. An experience of over 50 years in Italy and other little psyllic lands has taught me that slow movements with a wet fingertip, is the proper line of action’, a little spotting and soiling, 3 pages, 8vo, the final blank page pasted onto an old card album leaf with lower blank margin trimmed away (Quantity: 1) Mr Maine is probably a son of the jurist Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (1822-1888).
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