Autograph Letter Signed ('F C B') from the humorist F. C. Burnand [Sir Francis Cowley Burnand], joking about a prophecy made by his 'Punch' colleague Harry Furniss in a letter to 'The Times', addressed to 'Dear H. F. Vates et Vox Stellarum'.

2pp., landscape 12mo. On aged and dusty paper. This item is a jocular response to a letter by Furniss, printed in The Times of 21 July 1892 under the heading 'A Parliamentary Prophecy'. Both the Times letter and the present item are published in Furniss's 'Confessions of a Caricaturist' (1901), with other matter and the context explained. In this item Burnand teases Furniss about a misprint ('Is that setter-up-of-type still alive? Je m'en doute.') and comments on a 'reference to Harcourts chins' before jokingly implying that the letter was written while Furniss was drunk: 'You dated it from the Garrick but you don't put the time of night when you wrote it. "P.S." Post Supperal eh?'. He continues in the same vein, ending with a spoof advertisement: '"LIKA JOKO"! Parliamentary Prophet!! Prophecies sent out on shortest notice. Terms - reduction on taking a quantity'.