?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
LAWRENCE, THOMAS; SIR. Two items: Autograph Letter Signed * Autograph Note Signed, in third person within the text. The letter, "Tho's Lawrence," to "Ladies," inviting them to visit. 3 1/4 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; moderate bleed-through, horizontal folds. The note, on a small card: "Sir Thomas Lawrence will do himself the honor of waiting on the Duchess of St. Albans, at Holly Lodge, on Monday . . . ." 1 page, 3x4 1/4 inches; remnants of prior mounting overall verso. "Russell Square" [London], 5 September 1826; nd
"Now Ladies you are caught! . . . [Y]ou can have no reasonable objection to seeing me here . . . . "I take the Liberty to invite you to an Artist's (otherwise) solitary Evening; where you will have no company, unless you . . . call up the spirits . . . to be in attendance and appear at your bidding. . . ."
