Rex Whistler, one of the most talented – and intriguing – painters of the twentieth century was also a superb draughtsman. And once he had a pen or pencil in his hand, he could rarely resist the temptation to draw. In this book Whistler’s biographers, Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, have brought together a collection of the letters he wrote – and illustrated – throughout his life, from early letters to his family from boarding school; through the charming, witty letters he sent throughout the twenties and thirties to friends such as Stephen Tennant, Edith Olivier, Caroline Paget and Tallulah Bankhead; to the more sombre – but often still very funny – letters of the war years.