Scrapbook of press cuttings reporting the Punch Matinee at the Palace Theatre, London, in aid of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street on 3 May 1900. Mostly printed.
Album of letters, illustrations and sketches sent to Bradbury and Evans by some of their authors and artists, and other figures from literature. Contains letters from Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, W. M. Thackeray, Douglas Jerrold, Richard Doyle, F. C. Burnand, and Linley Sambourne. Additio...
'Ally Sloper' was a cartoon character, created by Charles Henry Ross, in the magazine Judy. At the time of this letter he was appearing in the weekly comic Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday, on whose headed paper this letter is written. With a 1980 annotation by Kenneth Griffith. Pasted on the verso is ...