Autograph Letter Signed from the Scottish painter Thomas Faed inviting a fellow-painter to his studio, and expressing concern that his paintings may get 'massacred [...] in the hanging'.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Watermarked 'JOYNSON | 1876'. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with minor staining from mount at foot of second leaf. Written in a hasty, untidy hand. The recipient appears to be 'My dear Hornby', 'Horley' or 'Howley'. Faed writes that he is 'slaving away chopping and changing sometimes worse and sometimes better (I hope) on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. 7th. 8th & 9th.', and on those days he will have 'all my pictures at the mercy of my friends - if you are in my way do look in and see them - I like to see my friends pictures in their studios and like them to see mine under the same conditions for heaven knows how they may get massacred [last word underlined] wrongly spelt I fear, is there only one S.? never mind, in the hanging -'. He signs the letter 'in Hurricane Haste'.