took place on a Sunday morning in May 1888. Invitations  out ations read:

    Mr. Edward LEAR

    Nonsense riter and Landscape Painter

    Requests the honor of Your Presence

    On the Occasion of his DEMISE.

    San Remo 2:20 a.m.

    th of May Please reply

    One can imagine ts. Our dear friend! is preparing to depart! and suc be, no me see. . . And t time I (dipped into) ( on tances approacure of solemnity and practicalness, per friend, tennyson:

    Old men must die,

    or the world would grow mouldy

    and:

    For men may come and men may go,

    But I go on forever.

    People prepared to attend t ry. Picnic baskets  o expect too mucality, under tances); bottles of oys o o be taken or left beually present at t restrain t tugged at t to be removed from the room.)

    Most of Mr. Lears friends decided t te time to arrive at t, or in t neigo alloleman time to make o do, before t. Everyone understood ime specified in tation meant. And so, tors found t Giuseppe Orsini) in almost total darkness. Pausing to greet people to corral straying c lengto a large room on t floor,  omed to ex ercolors, and tably aircase to a similar room on ted, in bed,  smoking jacket and acles iny oval lenses. Several dozen straiger arrivals stood along the walls.

    Mr. Lears first ;Ive no money!quot; As eacs entered ted, quot;Ive no money! No money!quot; remely tired, yet calm.  retaining patcly not been trimmed in some days. ely began to di