J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S
“LOVE FROM KIP”
69. Archive Of Letters To Pauline Baynes SHEPARD, E.H.; BAYNES, Pauline 1956-69. An exceptional archive of correspondence, revealing the dear friendship be- tween two of the twentieth century’s most-loved illustrators. Comprising; forty-two autograph letters and two autograph postcards from E. H. Shepard to Pauline Baynes; one facsimile of a letter; one photograph of Shepard by Gwen Morgan, captioned by Baynes to verso; numerous press cuttings and obituaries relating to Shepard. Two of the letters contain original drawings by Shepard, one a self portrait (11 x 11cm), the other of a witch delivering Baynes a cheque for £1,000 (9.5 x 11cm). In one case, only 2pp of a longer letter remains. In all, 113 pages of autograph correspondence from Shepard to Baynes, signed “Kip”. The correspondence opens with a letter from 29th March 1956, and finds Shepard struggling to work, “I do hope your drawings are going better than mine - I think a thing looks right when I knock off in the evening + then, the next morning, it looks horrific and I want to begin all over again.” A thread running through the first dozen or so letters is the preparation for the publi - cation of Shepard’s memoirs Drawn From Memory which appeared in September 1957. His first mention of it comes in August 1956, “I can’t tell you how grateful I am for
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