SIR JOHN TENNIEL Autograph LETTER Signed.

English illustrator and graphic humourist. Best known as the original illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by LEWIS CARROLL and as a long-serving Punch cartoonist.

 

ALS.  1p.  10 Portsdown Road, Maida Hill, W.  May 7th 1885. To William Woodall M.P. Together with a contemporary portrait photograph.

 

"I regret very much that by reason of a severe cold, I was unable to be present at your soiree last night."

 

12mo.  Approx 7 x 4.5 inches.  Some browning and off-setting from its previous mounting in an album and with mounting traces on verso. Good.  The photograph is an albumen silver print measuring approx 3.5 x 2.5 inches, laid down on part of original card album leaf, with some creasing and edge tearing caused when originally mounted.