This selection celebrates 21 years as a pocket cartoonist. The presentation reads, ‘To John from his old protegé Osbert L.’. William John Rayner (1908-90) was the recipient and had commissioned the first pocket cartoons for the Daily Express after a dinner in late 1938. Extract from With an Eye to the Future: ‘Whatever modest success the series may have enjoyed was for me of far less importance than the friendship with John Rayner which sprang from it. This distinguished bibliophil and pillar of the Foreign Office was then the youngest, and by far the best, Features Editor in Fleet Street; an erudite typographer, he had recently transformed the whole appearance of the Express by his energy and that of most of the other dailies by his example.’