This blog was devoted to the publication of Edward Lear's Diaries from 1 January 1858 to 12 May 1862. From January 2009 each was posted exactly 150 years after it was written and the project came to an end on 12 May 2012, the bicentenary of Lear's birth. The text is as exact as possible a transcript of Houghton Library MS Eng. 797.3. You can keep following the diaries at the new blog.

Harness (Mr. and Mrs.)

17.x.58, 7.xi.58, 12.xi.58, 17.vii.59, 5.v.61, 16.ix.61, 19.ix.61, 23.ix.61, 25.ix.61, 27.ix.61.

Street, Sarah (née Lear)

Edward Lear’s sister.

16.x.58, 18.x.58, 28.iv.59, 29.vi.59, 21.x.59, 28.x.59, 29.x.59, 1.xi.59, 18.i.60, 13.iii.60, 14.iii.60, 27.iii.60, 7.vi.60, 26.vi.60, 12.vii.60, 17.vii.60, 25.i.61, 1.ii.61, 8.ii.61, 8.iii.61, 10-11.iii.61, 13.iii.61, 14.iii.61, 15.iii.61, 16.iii.61, 2.iv.61, 1.v.61, 8.v.61, 16.vi.61, 29.viii.61, 2.ix.61, 5.x.61, 10.x.6126.x.61, 19.xii.61, 14.i.62.

Hutchinson, J.

14.x,58, 2.i.59, 22.i.59, 22.iii.59, 25.v.59, 26.vii.59, 21.ix.59, 30.ix.59, 17.xi.59, 18.xi.59, 18.vii.60, 28.ii.61, 3.iii.61, 17.vi.61, 18.vi.61, 16.vii.61, 22.ix.61, 26.ix.61.

Bell (family)

12.x.58, 14.x,58, 15.x.58, 1.ii.59, 22.v.59, 24.v.59, 1.vi.59, 10.vi.59, 18.vi.59 (?), 28.vi.59, 29.vi.59, 26.vii.59, 10.viii.59, 16.x.59, 19.x.59, 8.xi.59, 25.xi.59, 3.xii.59, 20.xii.59, 2.iv.60, 4.iv.60, 11.vii.60, 19.vii.60, 23.vii.60, 20.xii.60, 22.i.61, 7.ii.61, 4.iii.61, 17.iv.61, 23.iv.61, 17.vi.61, 18.vi.61, 9.vii.61, 1.ix.61, 4.xi.61, 22.xii.61, 24.xii.6125.i.62.

Farquhar, Harrie

22.ix.58, 27.vi.59, 28.vi.59, 6.vii.59, 7.vii.59, 11.vii.59, 9.ix.59, 12.ix.59, 3.xi.59, 7.xi.59, 27.iii.60, 6.vi.60, 25.vi.60, 28.vi.60, 1.vii.60, 7.vii.60, 19.vii.60, 24.vii.60, 25.vii.60, 30.vii.60, 2.viii.60, 27.i.61, 3.iii.61, 17.iii.61, 12.iv.61, 14.iv.61, 29.iv.61, 6.v.61.

Bethell, the Hon. Augusta

1838-1931.

The fourth daughter of Richard Bethell. She was the only woman that Lear seriously thought of marrying (SL, xxxv).

16.ix.58, 17.ix.58, 18.ix.58, 19.ix.58, 10.xi.58, 16.xi.58, 21.xi.58, 8.vi.59, 10.vii.59, 9.xi.59, 24.vi.60, 11.viii.60, 12.viii.60, 16.x.60, 19.x.60, 17.xi.60, 2.1.61, 13.iv.61, 14.iv.61, 17.iv.61, 6.v.61, 31.v.61, 1.vii.61, 25.viii.61, 31.viii.61, 3.ix.61, 8.ix.61, 31.xii.61.

Lushington, William

Nephew of Franklin Lushington, whom Lear met in Corfu in 1857, “one of the talking Lushingtons” (Chitty 1989, 173).

15.ix.58, 22.vi.60, 14.vii.60, 15.vii.60, 30.ix.60, 2.xii.60, 15.xii.60, 10.i.61, 11.ii.61, 17.ii.61, 3.iii.61, 6.v.61.

Woodthorpe, Mr. and Mrs. Edward

12.ix.58, 23.viii.59, 8.x.59, 17.iii.61, 10.iv.61, 22.v.61, 14.xii.61.

Hornby, Mr. and Mrs. James

9.ix.58, 21.v.59, 22.v.59, 10.vi.59, 17.iii.61, 26.iii.61, 27.iii.61, 25.viii.61, 31.viii.61.

Edwards, Samuel Price

Collector of tariffs and duties at Liverpool Port. He and (his son?) J.A. Edwards (Levi, 284 and 286) commissioned Lear several paintings. See Blog of Bosh. Samuel’s father James is also mentioned when Lear visits the family in September 1858.

7.ix.58, 8.ix.58, 9.ix.58, 10.ix.58, 20.ix.58, 22.ix.58, 27.x.58, 15.xi.58, 17.xi.58, 10.i.59, 11.i.59, 31.i.59, 3.iv.59, 5.iv.59, 21.iv.59, 25.iv.59, 4.v.59, 5.v.59, 20.v.59, 25.v.59, 10.vi.59, 6.vii.59, 7.vii.59, 6.viii.59, 10.viii.59, 3.ix.59, 4.ix.59, 6.ix.59, 7.ix.59, 8.ix.59, 25.x.59, 28.x.59, 6.xi.59, 9.xi.59, 14.xi.59, 16.xi.59, 26.xi.59, 29.xi.59, 30.xi.59, 1.xii.59, 2.xii.59, 6.xii.59, 12.i.60, 13.i.60, 31.i.60, 25.iii.60, 26.iii.60, 2.vi.60, 20.vi.60, 10.ix.60, 11.ix.60, 4.xii.60, 18.xii.60, 6.i.61, 4.ii.61, 12.ii.61, 3.iii.61, 17.iii.61, 18.iii.61, 23.iv.61, 1.v.61, 30.v.61, 23.vii.61, 25.viii.61, 28.viii.61, 2.ix.61, 11.x.61, 14.x.6125.x.61, 2.xii.61, 4.i.62.