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From Edward Lear: Selected Letters, edited by Vivian Noakes

DEAR HUNT

"You rummy old daddy -- do you know you have sent me a letter without any signature? -- only it ends -- 'Dear Lear, I am.'"

From a letter to William Holman Hunt, dated Bradgate Arms. Newtown Linford./ near Leicester./12 Octr. (1853)