EDWARD LEAR (1812–88)
Extract from a letter to Lady Waldegrave,
Letters of Edward Lear, ed. Lady Strackey (1907)

     November 4, 1862
I went into the city today, to put the £125 I got for the ‘Book of Nonsense’ into the funds. It is doubtless a very unusual thing for an artist to put by money, for the whole way from Temple Bar to the Bank was crowded with carriages and people,—so immense a sensation did this occurrence make. And all the way back it was the same, which was very gratifying.