Illustration to 'William McGonagall: the truth at last'

Two MS illustrations in black, in separate sections but mounted on the same piece of cardboard. The left section shows McGonagall looking out of a cell window. The section on the right shows the tower of the prison, with a bagpipe player on top of it, and McGonagall’s speech bubble ‘oh Terrible City Jail | Filled with terrible Men | If only I had some bail | I’d never come back | again | 3/100 | See me after school | SM’ (this last written in much smaller writing at the bottom underneath the poem itself). MS annotations in blue on the cardboard ‘100’, circled, above the left section; ‘101’, circled, above the right section and a line down the middle of the cardboard to divide the images, labelled ‘SPLIT’ at the top. On the reverse, an MS annotation in blue ‘2871/24’.

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