FLYER FOR LEAR'S SETTINGS OF TENNYSON'S POEMS AND SONGS LEAR (Edward, 1812-1888, Nonsense Writer & Artist)

Autograph Formal Letter in the third person to Mrs Bond, thanking her for her "very obliging letter, & also for the Post Office order for 8 shillings. The set of songs was sent yesterday & Mr Lear hopes it may arrive safely, though he now wishes he had kept them till he had heard from Mrs Bond. Mr Church was his adviser, & the address was said to be sufficient to ensure their safety. Should there be any difficulty, Mr Hansen, Mr Lear's Landlord will answer any enquiries, after Mr L. has gone ...", on the verso of a printed flyer "Preparing for Publication, Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson, set to Music and inscribed to Mrs Alfred Tennyson by Edward Lear. Nos. 1. Flow down, Cold Rivulet &c. 2. Edward Gray 3. Tears, idle tears. 4. Wind of the Western Sea ...", 2 sides 8vo., 65 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, no date but

As an author, Lear is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. Lear composed music for many Romantic and Victorian poems, but was known mostly for his many musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. He published four settings in 1853, five in 1859, and three in 1860. Lear's were the only musical settings that Tennyson approved of. This Leaflet must be for the first set.

Item Date:  1853

Stock No:  40481