BIB_ID
122050
Accession number
MA 2453
Creator
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
Display Date
[1863 Sept.].
Credit line
Purchased, 1965.
Description
1 item (4 p.) : ill. ; 18 cm
Notes
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of Lear bearing his calling card and on p. 3 with a sketch an old man sitting atop a fence facing a very large bull (illustrating the limerick "There was an old man who said, "How, / Shall I flee from this terrible cow? / I will sit on this stile / & Continue to smile - / wh[ich] may soften the heart of that cow."
Location and date of writing identified by Strachey.
Location and date of writing identified by Strachey.
Provenance
Purchased in 1965.
Summary
Saying that he came to leave his card in response to an invitation to dinner (illustrated with a sketch); discussing on a recent evening at Lady Waldegrave's, regretting his apparent rudeness at refusing to sing and noting "I felt like a cow who has swallowed a glass bottle - or a boiled weasel - & should probably have made a noise like a dyspeptic mouse in a fit." Concluding with an illustrated limerick and several riddles or jokes.
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