BATEMAN (H.M.) A small archive of 5 original pen and ink, watercolour or colour pencil drawings, and autograph letters, comprising: New Year card, with 5-line limerick ('There was a young fellow in Devon...') with pen and watercolour illustration of man standing on his head frying sausages over a candle, on thick white paper, inscribed and dated ('to Nicola from H.M.N. and 1958'), 150 x 100mm., 1958 Sketch of a 'typical' Bateman well-dressed gentleman with wide smile, ink and pencil, on stiff white paper, inscribed and dated ('To Nicola from H.M.B. 1962'), 200 x 100mm., 1962 New Year card, captioned 'Hark the Herald Angel Sing.', with circular pen and watercolour image of 4 ?aliens/moon dwellers singing from hymn sheets under a starlit sky, inscribed and dated 'A Happy New Year... to Nicola from Uncle B., 1962', sheet 122 x 122mm., 1962 'Speed' and 'Tranquility', 2 coloured pencil abstract drawings, on one sheet of paper, each captioned and signed with initials ('H.M.B.'), the sheet 250 x 180mm., undated Four autograph letters signed ('H.M.B.', 'Uncle Bateman' or 'Uncle B.'), one to his former bank manager's wife Mrs Tyrer, hoping they are settling in their new home '& getting your golf going again', assuring them the local bank is 'still solvent & anyway still paying out without signs of breakdown', advising them to visit a cartoon show in London, and that he himself had recently 'done a lot of sketching outside'; and three to their daughter Nicola, discussing artists ('Gauguin... was great artist & a wonderful colourist', worrying that the tapestry for Basil Spence's Coventry Cathedral is 'too ultra modern' but 'the glass makers must have made a fortune out of it...'), mentioning his recent trips to Brittany, asking after her language courses at University, etc., together 11 pages, one illustrated with a picture of a bearded man playing the guitar, addressed from North Tawton, Devon, 8vo and 4to, May 1962-July 1965 (small group) This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing