Lear, Edward, (1812-1888), landscape painter and writer

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Surname:	Lear
Forenames:	Edward
Gender:	Male
Date:	1812-1888
Biography:	ODNB link for Lear, Edward (1812-1888) Artist Author and Humorist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P148418 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P16978 )
Online related resources	Artists' Paper Register link for Edward Lear	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Edward Lear

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1828-88: corresp, papers and drawings (c5000 items)	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 81-573
2	1835-45: landscape sketches (27)	The King's School, Canterbury	WALPOLE	NRA 15260
3	annotated copy of A Book of Nonsense	Liverpool City Libraries	821 8 O R	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4	drawings and watercolours	Liverpool City Libraries		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
5	poems, drawings and watercolours	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.3321	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
6	1837-61: letters to his sister	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		See HMC Lear corresp file
7	1863-87: letters (19) to Lord and Lady Aberdare	Glamorgan Archives	DBR 153	NRA 13981
8	1884-87: letters to Lord Avebury	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 49647-49649	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9	1850-54: letters to 14th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, box 152	NRA 20084
10	1871-86: letters (c40) to Amelia Edwards and Marianne North	Oxford University: Somerville College	Amelia B Edwards Archive	NRA 9474 Edwards
11	1847-83: corresp with Chichester Fortescue	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD\SH	NRA 8898 Strachey
12	1852-86: letters (85), mainly to William Holman Hunt	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979
13	1852-86: letters (87) to William Holman Hunt (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP800, 3731(ii)	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
14	letters from William Holman Hunt	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library		See WE Fredeman, Pre-raphaelitism: a bibliocritical study 1965
15	1834-36: letters (23) to Sir William Jardine	National Museum of Scotland Library	William Jardine Papers 3/64	NRA 24275 Jardine
16	1872-1877: letters (8) to David Morier	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	Class F/Box 2/4	NRA 26039 Morier
17	letters (18) and papers rel to the Newsome family	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	MSL.1985/3	NRA 38891 V & A Museum
18	1867-69: letters to Sir John Simeon	Syracuse University Libraries	Simeon	NRA 24541
19	1867-83: letters to Sir Edward and Lady Strachey	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD/SH/C/2480/71/4	NRA 8898 Strachey
20	1852-1887: letters (60) to Emily, Lady Tennyson and Hallam Tennyson	Tennyson Research Centre		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
21	1878-87: letters (12) to FT Underhill (microfilm)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP1752(iii)	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
22	1853-1885: letters to William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), painter	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89472	See Annual Return 2022
23	1873: annotated draft of 'The Story of the Pobble, who has no toes, and the Princess Bink'	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89473	See Annual Return 2022
24	1830: transcriptions of early poems and letters, and draft manuscript of unpublished poem 'Once I had a Mucous Membrane'	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89474	See Annual Return 2022