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The list lacks a heading, and the drawings are unnumbered and undated. The places identified are in Crete, and the verso bears the text of a journal entry in Crete, crossed out.

Lists 126 entries (probably mounts), April 13 to June 6, 1864.

Lists 58 drawings, from April 21 to May 9, 1866.

Clipping from the August 15, 1896, issue of The Isle of Wight County Press, containing an obituary for Emily, Lady Tennyson.

Inventory includes five distinct lists and five sheets of miscellaneous notes at the end.

The page is divided into two columns. The column at left is titled "Size C. No. 3" and lists 35 items; the column at right is titled "Size D. No.4" and lists 34 items.

Printed checklist by the dealer George Dix, for works by Lear on display, December 2, 1947-January 3, 1948. The list includes the names of lenders, including Donald Gallup.

Auden's poem, framed by a pastiche of Lear's art by Bip Pares, first appeared in the Times Literary Supplement Spring Books supplement, 25 March 1939. The border is signed "Bip Pares after Edward Lear." A manuscript of the poem, in Auden's hand, is also present in the collection (see Box 2, f. 1).

Handwritten copy of W.H. Auden's (1907-1973) poem, "Edward Lear," originally published in 1939. The poem refers to Lear's "Terrible Demon," likely his poor health, as well as his time in Italy, his love of children, his hatred of his own nose, and his love of his cat, Foss ("a cat invited him to dance and shyly squeezed his hand").