Enchanting series of Illustrated Letters to William Miller ORD, M.D., (Watts, 1825-1874, Illustrator, Playwright and Novelist, best known for his play 'The Dead Heart' which served as a model for Cha

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(1834-1902, Medical Scientist and Physician, for fifty years at St Thomas s Hospital, London), to Ord s second wife Jane, (n e Youl), the Ords s daughter Christine and dog Tartar, with one or two by Caroline (Huskisson), known as Mrs Phillips, also humorous drawings and a title leaf for Jane Ord s Album , the letters are full of energy, puns and literary allusions, nearly all with one or more extremely skilful and witty pen-drawings. Besides Phillips s own troubles, for Ord s care of which he is extremely grateful, Phillips refers to invitations to the Ords s home in Streatham, imagines their holidays in Northumberland and Swanage, adding his reminiscences of both districts, and talks of the pressure of keeping up his writing (see No. 38, showing him chained to an inkpot like Prometheus to his rock), with much more. With a Checklist. Together 58 items on 99 sides (including 4 sides by Mrs Caroline Phillips), mostly 8vo, 45 Redcliffe Road (off the Fulham Road), West Brompton, London, 16th January - 31st December 1873 and circa February - April Watts Phillips began as an actor. He was then apprenticed to George Cruikshank (1792-1878), his lifelong friend, and who here comes to breakfast (see Nos. 8 and 10). Phillips studied art in Paris, and returned to work there, mainly as an illustrator. Separated from his wife, he met Caroline Huskisson, who became known as Mrs Phillips . In a curious incident, it was claimed that Phillips s play The Dead Heart plagiarised A Tale of Two Cit

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