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GEORGE DU MAURIER

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GEORGE DU MAURIER
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>GEORGE DU MAURIER </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1834-1896). British illustrator of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray and others. Also noted for his caricatures in <i>Punch</i>, Du Maurier was also a novelist, writing <i>Trilby</i> in 1894. ALS “<i>G du M</i>,” 1p, 12mo, “New Grove House, Hampstead Heath,” n.d. On his embossed stationery to Gilbert Arthur A’Beckett whom he addresses as “<i>A.a’B.</i>” Concerning the health of a mutual friend, Du Maurier writes in part, “...<i>I wrote to Frank in Ramsgate, to ask how he was. I have had no answer. I trust he is not seriously ill, is he?</i>” He and his friends had recently commented “<i>on that stupendous vitality of his! The very evening I wrote to him (rather flippantly, I fear) I received Sarah Barnum, directed in his own handwriting, & concluded it was all right. Kindly send me a line to say how he is</i>...” Boldly penned. Minor soiling; else VG.</span></p>