![LEAR, Edward (1812-1888) Autograph letter signed to Violet Campbell Grant, including a PEN AND INK SELF-PORTRAIT entitled 'Mr. Lear & Foss From a Photograph Dec[embe]r 1885', Villa Tennyson, San Remo, 27 December 1885, thanking for her letters and Heliotrope card, 'which I am half inclined to stick in the ground in the hope it may grow up into a tree. Foss desires compliments for the Manx kitten', recommending scarlet slippers to put on Buddha's toes, and hoping 'you stirred your plum pudding severely', commenting on his well-being and his visitor over Christmas, sending greetings to her sister and wondering 'what your brother Jack is doing in Brazil; I suppose collecting Brazil nuts, 4 pages, 12mo (135 x 105mm).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1995/CKS/1995_CKS_05424_0530_000(103249).jpg?w=1)
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LEAR, Edward (1812-1888) Autograph letter signed to Violet Campbell Grant, including a PEN AND INK SELF-PORTRAIT entitled 'Mr. Lear & Foss From a Photograph Dec[embe]r 1885', Villa Tennyson, San Remo, 27 December 1885, thanking for her letters and Heliotrope card, 'which I am half inclined to stick in the ground in the hope it may grow up into a tree. Foss desires compliments for the Manx kitten', recommending scarlet slippers to put on Buddha's toes, and hoping 'you stirred your plum pudding severely', commenting on his well-being and his visitor over Christmas, sending greetings to her sister and wondering 'what your brother Jack is doing in Brazil; I suppose collecting Brazil nuts, 4 pages, 12mo (135 x 105mm).
Lear missing his friends hopes that they will return and speaks of the sun rise, 'Since you left, the sun rises on that [east] side, which however it possibly did before and always, but I cannot be sure, being now - aet 74 rather confused & omblirious as to most matters', and describing the illness of his friend Lord Carlingford.
Lear missing his friends hopes that they will return and speaks of the sun rise, 'Since you left, the sun rises on that [east] side, which however it possibly did before and always, but I cannot be sure, being now - aet 74 rather confused & omblirious as to most matters', and describing the illness of his friend Lord Carlingford.