[Arthur Severn, English watercolour painter.] Autograph Letter Signed to John Fulleylove, discussing a dinner invitation.

A successful member of an English artistic family. See the Oxford DNB entries on his father Joseph Severn, brother Walter Severn and sister Mary Newton. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium on grey wove paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with traces of paper from mount adhering to the blank verso of the second leaf, and details typed at head. Folded once. Addressed to ‘Dear Fulleylove’ and signed ‘Arthur Severn.’ He invites him to dinner, on behalf of himself and his wife (Joan, a cousin of John Ruskin, born Agnew): ‘dinner will be at 7.30 or 8 and I thought if you came out early enough we might have some bowls in the garden’. He gives directions from London, adding: ‘Of course come in any dress. / I have asked [?] and Linton’. He ends: ‘If it is bad weather I shall only expect you to be here at 7.30 but can do as you like about that, welcome at any time’.