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Autograph Letter Signed ('Luke Fildes') from the English artist Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, to unnamed 'Gentlemen' [including Lawrence Alma Tadema?], declining an invitation to a lecture by the 'Punch' cartoonist and novelist George du Maurier.

Author: 
Luke Fildes [Sir Samuel Luke Fildes] (1843-1927), English artist [George du Maurier (1834-1896), 'Punch' cartoonist and author of 'Trilby]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of 11 Melbury Road, Kensington, W. 24 May 1892.
£65.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged grey paper. Fildes explains that he has just returned from Paris to find his correspondents' letter of 19 May, inviting him 'to hear Mr Du Maurier's discourse to-morrow night'. He cannot avail himself of the 'great pleasure', and of their' 'courtesy', as he has 'an engagement which cannot possibly be put off'. He ends by apologising for not answering sooner. On 25 May 1892 The Times reports a lecture that day at 'Prince's Hall: Mr. Du Maurier on "Social Pictorial Satire," Mr. Alma-Tadema, R.A., in the chair, 9.'

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