Louis Wain - Singing Cats

i) singing cat wearing a bow tie, 88 by 82mm., ink drawing; ii) long-haired singing cat, 100 by 90mm., ink drawing; both signed "Louis Wain" in lower left corner, both on single folded leaf, additional folds and minor soiling; iii) autograph letter signed ("Louis Wain") to Miss Mackinley enclosing "a little sketch with great pleasure" and hoping that "the efforts of my little cat to sing "Come Birdie Come" will give you a little of the delight which hearing your mother sing gives to me" (8vo, 2 pages, Westgate on Sea, 6 October 1899)

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