Forty-nine letters from William Holman Hunt to his friend Edward Lear (1812-88), November 1852-November 1887. The majority were written while Hunt was in England, but two were sent from the Italy and the Middle East (1869 and 1870). There is a further letter to Lear, dated April 1857, from the painter Robert Braithwaite Martineau (1826-69), who brought Lear and Holman Hunt together.
- /1: n.d.
- /2: 5 November 1852.
- /3: Chelsea, 8 December 1852.
- /4: Chelsea, December 1852.
- /5: Chelsea, 6 January 1853.
- /6: Chelsea, 24 January 1853 (two sheets).
- /7: Fielding Club, 13 March 1853.
- /8: n.d. [?1853].
- /9: 16 April 1853.
- /10: Ewell, Surrey, 22 July 1853.
- /11: Chelsea, n.d.
- /12: n.d.
- /13: 14 October, n.y.
- /14: Clarendon Press, Oxford, n.d.
- /15: n.d.
- /16: Oxford, n.d.
- /17: Pimlico, 13 April 1856.
- /18: Langham Place, 4 December 1856.
- /19: Sydenham, 31 December 1856.
- /20: Pimlico, 13 March 1857.
- /21: Pimlico, 16 April 1857.
- /22: Oxford, 6 June 1857.
- /23: n.d.
- /24: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 14 June 1857.
- /25: Fairlight [near Hastings, Kent], 23 September 1858.
- /26: Tor Villa, Campden Hill, 4 October 1858.
- /27: 4 June 1859.
- /28: 7 November 1859 (includes sketches).
- /29: n.d.
- /30: Tor Villa, Campden Hill, 1 June 1860.
- /31: Basset Wood near Southampton, 6 October 1860.
- /32: 11 March 1861.
- /33: 7 May 1862.
- /34: Tor Villa, Campden Hill, 14 August 1862.
- /35: 10 September 1862.
- /36: Burton Park, Petworth, 4 October 1864.
- /37: Burton Park, Petworth, 15 October 1864.
- /38: Tor Villa, Campden Hill, 2 May 1865.
- /39: n.d. (first page missing).
- /40: Tor Villa, Campden Hill, 24 April, n.y.
- /41: Florence, 31 May 1869.
- /42: Jerusalem, 21 September 1870.
- /43: 14 August 1872.
- /44: Queensborough Terrace, Bayswater, 3 September 1872 (two sheets).
- /45: Wilton Terrace, Campden Hill, 11 February 1873.
- /46: Wilton Terrace, Campden Hill, 10 July 1875.
- /47: Berkeley Gardens, Campden Hill, 22 August 1878 (three sheets).
- /48: Kensington, 25 June 1881.
- /49: 18 November 1887.
- /50: Letter from Robert B. [Braithwaite] Martineau to Lear, Pimlico, April 1857.