ALS from Juliana Horatia Ewing with two ink sketches and verse 1864

EWING, Juliana Horatia (nee Gatty) (1841-1885). Autograph letter signed, with an inserted autographed poem and ink sketches. Ecclesfield, Feb. 27, 1864.
 
1 sheet of blue paper, 110 x 190 mm, folded once, written over two pages and signed by Juliana Horatia Gatty. With a folded cream bifolium of a poem and two ink sketches, inserted and fixed to the rear page. Old folds, mounting residue to the last page, pin hole loss to last page not affecting sketch. 
 
The letter by children's writer Juliana Ewing, to Miss Woodall, concerns the commissioning of an engraved seal, specifying onyx or cornelian and giving instructions as to size and shape, referring to an enclosed sketch.
 
The inserted bifolium contains two pen-and-ink drawings with accompanying manuscript verses. The poem is about ladies that lose one of their group, who then springs up out of a box, to their shock and surprise. The drawings illustrate the poem, showing a group gathered around playing croquet and then shocked as the girl pops out of a box. The letter is written by Ewing; the drawings and verse either Ewing or one of her sisters.