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Autograph Letter Signed ‘F.W.Topham’, to W.Leigh Clare, discussing the dispatch of a drawing on approval, confirming the price of 150 guineas 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Warwick House, 86 Adelaide Road, 19 August 1864. Francis William Topham (1808–1877), watercolour painter, traveller in Spain, and illustrator of Dickens. Dickens recruited Topham to his amateur theatrical company, the Guild of Literature and Art, and the painter frequently performed with Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the artists Clarkson Stanfield and John Tenniel.