8 MARCH 1975, Page 5

Edward Lear

Sir: We have been commissioned by the Oxford University Press to edit a new collection of Edward Lear's nonsense, and we would like to appeal through your columns for drawings, letters or any Lear manuscripts, whether nonsense or otherwise, that your readers may have.

We will take great care of any material entrusted to us, and will pay postage or reproduction costs. Vivien Noakes and Charles Lewsen 146 Hamilton Terrace, St. John's Wood, London NW8