A view of the Qutb Minar, Delhi

Lear stayed for 10 days in Delhi and described how he passed his time '..making Delhineations of the Dehlicate architecture as is all impressed on my mind as inDehlibly as the Dehliterious quality of the water of that city' (The Later Letters of Edward Lear, ed. Lady Strachey, London, 1911, p. 171).