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AUTOGRAPHS: KNIGHT LAURA: (1877-1970) English Impressionist Artist. Illustrated A.L.S., Laura, one page, 4to, St. Johns Wood, London, 5th March 1966, to 'My dear Stanley'. Knight announces 'After re-reading your beautiful letter....this huge piece of paper gives me fits' and continues 'I have to scribble an image (not a portrait) but an inadequate expression of my delight. Words fail me - to do justice to your own is impossible. I have just spent several weeks trying to paint an impossible picture out of my head - about nothing. I live in the hope that it means something to someone else, but doubt it. Anyway it's good fun to try to do something you can't do....' Knight has illustrated her letter with an original pen and ink drawing of a ballerina in a full length pose, the image taking up around half the page. A couple of extremely light, minor stains, otherwise VG