[‘Bill Nye’, pen name of E. W. Nye [Edgar Wilson Nye], humorist and editor of the Laramie Boomerang.] Two Autograph Letters Signed, the first [to Grant Reid] regarding a publicity photograph, the second to Henry Van der Weyde authorizing it.

The two items are in good condition, lightly aged, and both folded for postage. Both 1p, 12mo. ONE (evidently to Grant Reid, editor of the Northern Figaro, Aberdeen): Signed ‘E. W. Nye’. Recipient not named. ‘My dear Sir / Your favor of the 9- asking for a photograph to be used in your admirable publication is just received. / I have none that are at all suitable for your purpose but in Regent street at Mr Van der Weyde’s studio I am quite sure you can get a very good one and I enclose an order for it, hoping you may get it without delay, fir I would be proud to figure among the artistic portraits done so well as the Figaro does them.’ TWO (to Henry Van der Weyde): Signed ‘Bill Nye’. Addressed to ‘My Dear Mr Van Der Weyde’ and reading: ‘Will you kindly supply Mr Grant Reid with one of those masterly Dutch Reformed Photographs of mine and make me yet more your debtor and obdient servant / Bill Nye’.