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1852. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds. Autograph Letter Signed, from Dickens to schoolmaster Joseph Charles King, sending an unspecified document [not present; probably a check in payment of services rendered]. "Tavistock House" [London], 10 March 1852. "I have been constantly 'going' to call on you one morning and bring you the enclosed with many thanks. My occupations have so constantly enforced me with the substitution of the will for the deed, that I think it best to send it thus after all." Joseph Charles King (1794-1854) was the schoolmaster who tutored Dickens's sons, Charley (1847-49) and Walter (1849-51), in preparation for public school.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED by DICKENS, CHARLES - 1851
by DICKENS, CHARLES
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1 Devonshire Terrace, London, 1851. Hand-written letter measuring 4 1/2" x 7". Two horizontal folds to accommodate envelope for mailing. " 1 Devonshire Terrace, Eighteenth January 1857. Dear Sir, I have been visiting in the country or I should have answered your note sooner. I assure you that I feel under many obligations now, and have to thank you for much kindness. I shall be glad to do so, in person, whenever you find such for time. Give me the opportunity. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens. (addressee's name). Signed with Dickens' flourishing paraph. Our research suggests that Dickens was visiting Gad's Hill in Kent when he said he had gone to the country, as it was being renovated, then returned to Devonshire Terrace for a short time before returning to Gad's Hill . He was also travelling extensively in Europe during this time. He used Gad's Hill as his country house, until his death in 1870. I Devonshire Terrace was demolished in 1858-1859. Letter of authentification is also included. Included is an engraved portrait of Dickens by Stodart after a photograph by Watkins. Please see photograph..
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- Date Published 1851
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Autograph letter signed, with his initials, to his servant John Thompson
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London, 1865. 1p., single sheet of Dickens's Gad's Hill Place letterhead. With the original envelope addressed in his hand and signed within the address. With a recent letter regarding provenance, as well as typescript transcription. 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Old folds. 1p., single sheet of Dickens's Gad's Hill Place letterhead. With the original envelope addressed in his hand and signed within the address. With a recent letter regarding provenance, as well as typescript transcription. 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Letter from Dickens to his Servant. ALS from Charles Dickens to his servant of twenty years, John Thompson, informing him that Dickens wouldn't be able to attend a dinner with Lady Molesworth and providing instructions. A few weeks after the letter was written, Thompson was found to have been stealing money from Dickens' magazine, 'All the Year Round' and discharged, though Dickens set him up in a small business afterward.
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Autograph letter signed, accepting a story.
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20 September 1864. Dickens as editor and literary critic Autograph letter signed from Dickens to one of his regular authors, accepting a story for publication in his periodical All the Year Round, and praising her literary skill. Dickens writes to Julia Cecilia Collinson Stretton (1812-1878) that "I am very happy to accept your story", discussing his preference to include it in the Christmas number, though he is not yet sure of its contents aside from that part of it written by himself. For its inclusion he will give it "a little condensation and slight touching". Dickens adds "a word of small praise" for the story and commends the skill of the author. The recipient published two stories in the Christmas number of All The Year Round, 'His Portmanteau' and 'Hat-Box', and published a number of triple-decker novels with Hurst and Blackett between 1855 and 1869. Other letters to the same recipient are known, discussing serializing her stories in the same journal. Bifolium (178 x 111 mm). Autograph…
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, in the Hand of Charles Dickens, SIGNED boldly by the Famous Author
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London: Household Words Office, May 15, 1857. In brown/black ink on ivory paper, twice folded. Approximately 7.25" by 4.25", now in attractively matte in a black trimmed mount and glazed in a black frame. A very well preserved manuscript letter, in fine condition. SIGNED AND DATED MANUSCRIPT NOTE FROM CHARLES DICKENS. The note is to "Mr. Lemon", almost certainly Mark Lemon, the founder of Punch Magazine and longtime friend. Dickens informs him that he and his wife Kate will be in town "a little before 4, and will call for you very soon after that hour." It is signed "Your faithful Friend, Charles Dickens" in Dickens' very distinctive signature with flourish.
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Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed.
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1844. English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.
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Bentley's Miscellany and Mudfog Papers Specially Bound Volume with Inserted Signed Letter
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Minor rubbing to the extremities of the spine, Sli Signed letter and envelope in Dickens' hand, "Boz's" contributions to Bentley's Miscellany, Including The Extraordinary Gazette and the Mudfog Papers. 1837-1842.This is a specially made up volume of Bentley’s Miscellany. Contributions by Boz.,which includes an autograph letter signed by Dickens and the scare leaflet The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz." The letter is addressed to a Mrs Hood and dated Friday, December 1867 and reads: Dear Madam, I hope you will not think me insensible to your kind feeling towards me when I beg to decline your proferred Dedications. I am [bound?] to assure you that I cannot favorably. encourage you in the mistaken ideas that such an association of my name with any work would be a guarantee of success. [Faithfully yours,] Charles Dickens" (Mrs Hood is written on the bottom of the letter..…
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Autograph Letter Signed from Richard Henry Dana Jr., Giving the Ecstatic Response of America to the Visit of Charles Dickens
by DICKENS, CHARLES & RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR
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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 ...…
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