d. 1858.

Lear met John Proby in Rome in 1847, and together they visited Sicily (their comic adventures were drawn by Lear in a picture story published about 1938 as Lear in Sicily). He died in 1858 at the age of 35.

24.viii.58, 25.viii.58, 20.ix.58, 6.x.58, 22.xi.58, 3.vi.61.