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DICKENS, Charles
Autograph letter signed to Thomas Wright.
Gads Hill Place Higham Kent: 3 June 1870. One of his final letters An autograph letter penned just six days before the author's death sent in apology and reading in full "Dear Sir In the hurry of saving the day's post for many letters the enclosed was left in my cheque book when I wrote to you. I am very sorry to have caused you trouble. Faithfully yours Charles Dickens." It is accompanied by the original envelope addressed in Dickens's hand to Thomas Wright of Regent's Park and dated 3 June 1870. Dickens previously wrote to Wright on 31 May to donate three guineas to a fund in support of the writer George Linnaeus Banks 1821-1881. Dickens realized a few days later he had overlooked to include the cheque. The scholar Graham Storey argues that the recipient is "probably" the prison philanthropist of Manchester 1789-1875 who Dickens discussed on the front page of the Household Words issue of 6 March 1852: "A worn but not a weary man of sixty-three who has for forty-seven years been weekly servant in a large iron foundry. Poor as he was - toiling as he did a modest man of humble origin with no power in the world to aid him but the wonderful spiritual power of an earnest will - Thomas Wright has found means in his little intervals of leisure to lead back with a gentle hand three hundred convicted criminals to virtue; to wipe the blot from their names and the blight from their prospects; to place them in honest homes supported by an honest livelihood". Dickens spent the last week of his life at Gads Hill working on his unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870 until his death on 9 June 1870. Single sheet of Gads Hill Place letterhead 176 x 113 mm written on one side only. With the original envelope addressed in Dickens's hand franked 3 June. Unrelated commercial studio portrait of Dickens loosely included. Two gentle folding creases to letter; envelope a little soiled and neatly opened: a very well-preserved example. Graham Storey ed. Letters of Charles Dickens vol. 12 1868-1870 pp. 541-2 publishing Dickens's previous letter to Wright of 31 May but not publishing the present letter of 3 June. unknown
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Dickens, Charles
Autograph letter signed to the Dean of Peterborough "Sir" pledging a public performance of "A Christmas Carol
Folkestone 1855. 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Written on the first and last pages of a folded sheet in blue ink. Chemise and half green morocco slipcase with spine lettered in gilt. 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In late summer of 1855 Dickens agrees to a public reading of A Christmas Carol already a much-loved work at Peterborough in December. He first read his ghost story of Christmas at Birmingham in 1853 and had reprised the performances the following year. "The public readings of Charles Dickens which were to play so large and in some respects so fatal a part in his life were from the start specifically associated with his philanthropic activities" Ackroyd Dickens p. 666.<br /> <br /> "Resuming the correspondence I had the pleasure of holding with you some time since I beg to say that I shall be happy to read my Christmas Carol at Peterborough on the morning of Tuesday the 18th of December. As I shall stay there but a few hours and shall probably be accompanied by at least two friends I shall not be able to have the honor of accepting your hospitality; but I feel greatly obliged to you for offering it. When the arrangements for the occasion shall begin to be in progress may I beg you to contact my friend Mr W. H. Wills of the Household Words office London. Mr. Wills will give him any information he may desire as to the time the reading will occupy and as to my own little requirements with a view to position &c."<br /> <br /> Dickens' readings were well attended and he gave memorable moving performances. In December in the midst of work on Little Dorrit which had just begun serial publication Dickens went to Peterborough and gave his reading at the Mechanics' Institute returned to London "where the people I met on their way to offices were actually sobbing and crying with cold"; up North to Sheffield for another performance then back to London like "an enormous top in full spin" and off to Paris to resume work on the novel in progress Ackroyd pp. 751-2. Letters from Dickens discussing the public readings of A Christmas Carol are uncommon.<br /> <br /> A CHOICE LETTER FROM DICKENS. Provenance: Swann November 26 2013 sale 2333 lot 270 unknown
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Dickens, Charles
Autograph letter signed and carte-de-visite photo dated 1867
1841. <p>1 Autograph letter signed to Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith 1788-1861. 1 page. Devonshire Terrace London 3 June 1841. 154 x 117 mm. Traces of mounting on blank verso light soiling along folds but very good. With:</p> <p> 2 Carte-de-visite photograph of Dickens by J. Gurney & Son. New York 1867. 107 x 64 mm. Photographer's logo on verso discolored and faded a few tiny spots but very good. Together 2 items.</p> <p> To his friend Thomas Southwood Smith physician and sanitary reformer regarding Smith's plan for founding a subscription sanatorium for middle-class Londoners; Dickens was an early supporter of Smith's scheme and served as a member of the Sanatorium's committee. Dickens letters relating to medicine are rare; this is the first one we have ever handled. This letter was not seen by the editors of Dickens's correspondence who were able only to record its existence from a listing in a 1909 dealer's catalogue; see House and Storey The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 p. 294.</p> <p> The letter reads:</p> <p> My Dear Dr. Smith I fear I shall be prevented by business from attending the committee tomorrow. I expected to have seen Sir Martin Shee yesterday but did not. I have therefore written to him; and when I receive his answer will let you know. I have also written to Talfourd and Macready and am quite sure they will join most cheerfully though I have not yet received their answers. Faithfully yours always Charles Dickens. Smith's Sanatorium described in its prospectus as "a self-supporting establishment for the lodging nursing and cure of sick persons of the middle classes of both sexes" opened at Devonshire House York Gate close to Dickens's house at Devonshire Terrace in April 1842. As he noted in this letter Dickens had written to the portrait painter Sir Martin Shee 1769-1850 president of the Royal Academy to ask whether Shee would consider supporting Smith's venture; Shee readily agreed for which Dickens thanked him in a letter dated 9 June see the online Charles Dickens Letters Project. The present letter also mentions Dickens's good friends judge and politician Thomas Noon Talfourd 1795-1854 to whom Dickens had dedicated The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club and stage actor William Macready 1793-1873.</p> <p> The letter is accompanied by an 1867 carte-de-visite photograph of Dickens by J. Gurney & Son of New York most likely taken during Dickens's second American tour. </p> . unknown
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Dickens, Charles; Lowe, Robert, Lord Sherbrooke
Autograph letter signed by Robert Lowe Lord Sherbrooke 1811-1892 about Charles Dickens
Original letter. SHERBROOKE Lord Robert Lowe Viscount Sherbrooke 1811-1892. Autograph letter signed referring to Charles Dickens. Sherbrooke Sept. 22nd post 1880. 1 sheet folded written in ink on 1 side only 175 x 115 mm on monogrammed paper. Old fold marks; very good. A note concerning Charles Dickens. Lord Sherbrooke writes to an unidentified correspondent declining a request explaining that he "had only the slightest acquaintance with Charles Dickens." Robert Lowe Viscount Sherbrooke 1811-1892 was one of the major political figures of Victorian Britain serving under Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary before his elevation to the peerage in 1880. Brilliant but notoriously abrasive Lowe was among the most formidable parliamentary debaters of his generation and became closely associated with opposition to electoral reform and mass democracy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1880. Original letter paperback
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Dickens, Charles
Autograph Letter signed "Charles Dickens" with flourish to Adolphus Trollope on the blank of a letter from Mowbray Morris to Dickens concerning his recommendation of Trollope to The Times
Gads Hill Place 1869. 8 lines in blue ink on conjugate leaf of letterhead of The Times. 1 vols. 8vo. Framed double glass. About fine. 8 lines in blue ink on conjugate leaf of letterhead of The Times. 1 vols. 8vo. Mowbray Morris 1819-1874 manager of The Times newspaper from 1847 to 1873 wrote Charles Dickens on 23 November 1869 thanking him for the "recommendation of Adolphus Trollope. It is an infinite comfort to a man who is charged with the difficult task of fitting holes with their appropriate pegs to have the assistance of any one so competent as you are. I think we shall give Mr. Trollope a trial ."<br /> Dickens wrote a note on the blank "My Dear Trollope I received the note on the other side from Mowbray Morris this morning and immediately post it on to you. Very affectionately yours Charles Dickens" signing with a fine flourish.<br /> Dickens had written to Morris on 20 November; Trollope did not take up the position at The Times. Published in Pilgrim Edition vol. 12 on the basis of 1935 description in T.A. Madigan catalogue unknown
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DICKENS, CHARLES & RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR
Autograph Letter Signed from Richard Henry Dana Jr. Giving the Ecstatic Response of America to the Visit of Charles Dickens
Boston: 3 1/4 pages 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches January 31 1842. Original Autograph Letter Signed “Richd. H. Dana Jr.†written to Dana’s English publisher Edward Moxon describing the amazingly warm response of Americans to Charles Dickens visiting Boston. An absorbing letter showing Dana’s wonderful narrative abilities of which more than half is devoted to Dana’s account of Dickens’s stay in Boston during the English author’s celebrated first trip to America in 1842. Moxon was the British publisher of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast and the recently issued The Seaman’s Friend. “. We have Dickens here with us & the whole town is crazy the author and his wife arrived in Boston from England on 22 January. I doubt if a literary man ever made such a ‘progress’ through a country as he is making through ours. Indeed I am certain it will be an era in literary history . From the moment the steamer was sighted up to this hour. The whole community has been in a high fever . he is obliged to refuse all visitors except at certain hours & then he holds a regular levee. The other day when he went to sit for his portrait on coming out he found the ante room staircase etc. lined with people young & old. One old lady asked him to stand still & let the ladies form a ring round so that all could see him. This was too much for his risibles & he laughed out & told her eager ladyship that he was sorry etc. but was in a hurry — & was going off; when the ladies called out to the artist ‘Do Mr. A. stop him! Don’t let him go!’ In the meanwhile the standard men of literature & wealth are paying him every attention & like him exceedingly . I have met him several times & like him very much. How full of life he is! . He told me much in the way of answering questions about yourself ‘ our friend’ as you call him Capt. Ives & others of whom I was curious to inquire . Dickens has told us many anecdotes of Charles Lamb some of which are not yet published & which interested us very much. You don’t know what a feeling there is here about Lamb .†Boston’s adulatory reception of the English writer reached its climax the next day 1 February with a great banquet held in his honor which Dana also attended. Dickens’s visit to the United States he returned to England in June resulted in his American Notes for General Circulation 1842. Written in brown ink on a bifolium of gray paper with small embossed stamp of T. Groom Boston; address panel postmark and remnants of red sealing wax. A rare view of Dickens in America through the eyes of a significant American writer. 3 1/4 pages (9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches unknown
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Dickens, Charles
Aventuras De Nicolas Nickleby Tomo 1 1872 French Edition
Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. paperback. New. 6.00x1.10x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
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Dickens, Charles
Aventuras De Nicolas Nickleby Tomo 1 1872 French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventuras De Nicolas Nickleby Tomo 1 1872 Spanish Edition
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Dickens, Charles (John Huffam (7 Februaro 1812 - 9 Junio 1870)
Aventuras de Oliver Twist Las
EDIVAL 1975. 1. hardcover. Maloftege! EDIVAL hardcover
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Volume II French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Volume I French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Vol. I: ROMAN ANGLAIS French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Vol. II: Roman Anglais French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Vol. II: ROMAN ANGLAIS French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Vol. I: Roman Anglais French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Vol. I French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick Vol. II French Edition
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Dickens, Charles,
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick Vol I
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Dickens, Charles,
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick: ROMAN ANGLAIS; Volume I French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick Volume 2. French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick Volume 1. French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick: ROMAN ANGLAIS; Volume II French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick: ROMAN ANGLAIS; Volume II French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick: ROMAN ANGLAIS; Volume I French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick V1 1865 French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick V2 1865 French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick: Roman Anglais.Tome 1 Litterature French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick: Roman Anglais.Tome 2 Litterature French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick V2 1865 French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures De Monsieur Pickwick V1 1865 French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick - Volume I French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick - Volume II French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Bardell v. Pickwick; the Trial for Breach of Promise of Marriage Held at the Guildhall Sittings on April 1 1828 Before Mr. Justice Stareleigh and a Special Jury of the City of London
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Dickens, Charles
BARNABLY RUDGE; Works of Charles Dickens; Household Edition Three Volumes Leatherbound; COMPLETE Illustrated from Drawings by F. O. C. Darley and John Gilbert
Sheldon & Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1862. Hardcover. Used books very collectible still attractive. Covers show wear but not abuse Bindings are stitched not glued. Quality books . Sheldon & Company hardcover
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Dickens, Charles
BarnabT Rudge Tome I French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
BarnabT Rudge Tome II French Edition
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge; Volume III
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge; Volume III
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DICKENS, Charles
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty Crown Edition
London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good-. 1893. Leather. An illustrated 1893 Chapman and Hall edition of the fifth novel by Charles Dickens 1812-1870. "Barnaby Rudge" is a historical novel set in 1780 at the time of the destructive Gordon Riots. A key part of the storyline is a mysterious murder. Includes the original 76 engraved illustrations by 'Phiz' Hablot K. Browne and by George Cattermole. --- In publisher's Crown Edition in maroon cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped crown to front cover double fillets to covers in black to front and in blind to back with spine titling & horizontal bands in gilt. --- A rather well-preserved copy though with soiling to cloth a London hotel's rubberstampings to endpapers and a small tear to cloth at head of spine else tightly-bound and intact. NOTE: Due to the weight of this item extra shipping charges may be requested. ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; x 531 pages . Chapman and Hall hardcover
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge
DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP 2022. Paperback. New. 682 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP paperback
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty Everyman's Library
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge Classic Reprint: A Tale of the Riots of ""Eighty""
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge
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Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
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