Ted is torn twixt pulpit and easel

Ewbank, Send, March 25 Buyer’s premium: 10 per cent UK: An amusing, illustrated letter sent by the 16-year-old Edward Coley Burne Jones to his aunt Amelia on May 7, 1849, topped this sale with a London bid of £880.

Browned at the folds and edges – as the illustration shows – it refers to a stay at her house at Har…

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