[ Henry Turner, American artist in Prussia. ] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Messrs Morgan & Buckstone' of Berners Street Gallery, London, stating that he sending over '4 Oil Pictures', with reference to 'Mr G. du Mourier'. [ George Du Maurier ].

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly-aged. 'I shipped on yesterday to you through Mr J. D. Brink Jr Forwarding Merchant of this city a box containing 4 Oil Pictures which I wish you to expose for sale at your Exhibition Rooms. | The titles and prices of the same will be given you by my friend Mr G. du Mourier. Please let me know when they come to hand.' The Berner's Street Gallery's association with American artists would continue: in the following decade it would gain notoriety for exhibiting Whistler's 'Symphony in White, No. 1'. The Cosmopolitan Art Journal for June 1859 contains a reference to 'Mr. Henry Turner, a promising Virginia artist' studying at Düsseldorf. There is another reference, in Mary Elizabeth Hite's memoir 'My Rappahannock Story Book' (1950), to 'Mr. Henry Turner, artist, and member of a fine old family, [who] had returned from Germany where he had gone to study.'