ALS, one page both sides, 6.5 x 5.5, June 7, 1889. Letter to H. E. Hadley. In full: “We shall arrive, in our best clothes & behaviour, with tickets, & bearing our tin mugs & clean ‘handkerchers,’ by special bus, about 7:45 or 8, so that we shall certainly be too late for the first concert. We shall minutely examine anything resembling a corridor in the hope of seeing you, & probably you will find us finally deploying along the central promenade if our search is unavailing. Could you not stick up a few papers like this [To Hadley] to guide us, & ‘blaze’ your way about by chalk inscription?” Wells draws three small directional signs within the text, along with a large, detailed sketch on the reverse showing the interior of a concert hall, captioned below, “Us a waitin’ for you.” Central vertical and horizontal folds with one small edge separation, and light toning and soiling, otherwise fine condition. The pioneering science fiction author was fond of adding sketches and caricatures within his correspondence, little drawings that he called ‘picshuas.’ Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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