Author: YATES, Edmund
Title: Autograph Letter Signed, 1872. To Leslie Ward.
Description: Written on one page (of 4) with purple ink. On paper with printed letterhead '14A Upper Wimpole Street, W.' Dated 'June (?) 7. '72.' 13,5 x 9,0 cm. 6 lines. Horizontal fold. Glue trace on last page. 'My dear Leslie Ward. I am glad to hear from (hard to read) that you are willing to do a little work for me'. And suggestion for making an appointment. Leslie Ward (1851-1922) was at that moment at the dawn of his career as a caricaturist and painter. According to Yates's memories, the first two commissions for Ward were a portrait of Dickens and one of Thackeray.

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