Sir,—Further to Tim Carey’s article on cartoonist Alan Reeve (HI 32.1, Jan./Feb. 2024), the catalogue of the National Library of New Zealand includes among the Reeve papers an item with restricted viewing. This is a collection of 29 erotic cartoons, comprising ‘5 pencil, 1 watercolour and 23 ink cartoons drawn on paper of various sizes and glued in album’. The sketch-book is dated 1925–50, so including Reeve’s time in Dublin. It would be interesting to know whether any of these cartoons portray the personalities that Reeve featured fully clothed in his famous Dublin Culture work.—Yours etc.,
BRIAN TRENCH
Wexford