[Ruth Mercier, nineteenth-century Franco-Swiss artist.] Autograph Note Signed (in her name and on behalf of Rozalia de Jackowska), in French, to ‘Monsieur et Madam Earle’. Incorporating an original ink drawing by her of a walking stick

1p, 16. On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium of grey paper, with simple drawing in the same ink as the text of a straight plain walking stick stuck in the ground and running up the left-hand margin, with the handle hooked to the right at the top with the dating to its right. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: ‘le 25 Decembre 89. / Mille bons voeux de nouvelle année à Monsieur et Madam Earle de leurs hôtesses reconaisantes et affectionnées / Ruth Mercier / et Rozalia de Jackowska.’ Mercier spent time in Venice with Mlle de Jackowska, but the nature of their relationship is unclear. See image.