Doyle, Richard

[Doyle, Richard- ALS to Locker-Lampson] Autograph Letter Signed from Richard Doyle to F. Locker-Lampson About the Passing of Charles Bagot Cayley, Friend of Christina Rossetti

One-page autograph letter signed by Richard Doyle (1824-1883), undated, but circa 1883 (see below), and mentioning Millais and Holman Hunt (see below), noted artist and illustrator of the Victorian period, to Frederick Locker-Lampson, English poet and bibliophile best known for the numerous editions of “London Lyrics,” which appeared between 1857 and 1909. “May 10. My dear Locker, Many thanks for the portrait of poor Cayley [Charles Bagot Cayley, poet and English linguist and translator of Dante, but best known for his long-term and close relationship with Christina Rossetti] for whom I had a real regard and whose acquaintance I remember making as far back as the year ‘51 just after his winning the medal for the best poem of the year at Edinburgh. I don’t know who of late were his chief friends here. Millais certainly was one. Ld Houghton, also I think Holman Hunt very likely, but I am not sure. Yrs. Sincerely, Richard Doyle.” Vey good condition, with crease marks on folded sheet, on his Atheneum embossed stationery, as well original embossed envelope with “F. Locker, Esq,” in Doyle’s hand.

Price: $550.00   Item #6205