Lot 229
Millais, Sir John Everett - John Leslie
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Four autograph letters, comprising 3 autograph letters signed to Mrs Constance Leslie, the wife of his friend the artist John Leslie, 5 pages, 8vo, one with original envelope, one letter with the address 7 Cromwell Place, two headed with Millais's monogram, 13 July 1868 - 15 March 1872 "I had entirely forgotten that all my pictures would be here from the Royal Academy and I must work all day on them cleaning &c... I have been summoned at 10 at Clerkenwell upon a grand Jury which I cannot avoid.. (30 July 1868), "Many thanks for the cheque... The Agnews have always obtained very large donations & give liberally - but the Christie & Manson people never give anything" (13 May 1869); and a further letter to Lady Leslie, March 17, 1986, promsing to come, when he has recovered from "an intolerable attack of neuralgia", Millais's name in another hand added at the head, tipped into Lady Leslie's copy of collected wood-engravings of paintings by Millais, red morocco, lettered in gilt on upper cover "Woodcuts from drawings by J.E. Millais" and "Constance Leslie 1863" on lower cover, some of the woodcuts with verses added in pencil, bookplates of Sir John Leslie Bt., Shane Leslie and Leonie Leslie, note by Constance Leslie on front endpaper "The etchings were given to me by Mrs Millais"
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire