DICKENS HOPES HIS GODSON WILL SAY “OH WHAT A JOLLY OLD GODFATHER!”
DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)
Superb Unpublished Autograph Letter signed with fine full signature to his Godson
most probably Charles Dickens Kneller BURNETT (1841-1881, the son of his elder sister Fanny) sending him “the desk I told you about. I hope you will like it, and find everything you want inside. Also there are three books that I think very pretty to read. Perhaps. you may not be quite old enough yet, to read them. Never mind. You will soon grow out of that, for I never knew a boy yet, who stood still in his age, or got younger. I hope you will think of me sometimes when you use the desk or read the books, and will say ‘Oh what a jolly old Godfather!’...” with a postscript under his signature “There’s a flourish for you!”, 2 sides 8vo., Devonshire Terrace, 21st June
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
41823
£5250
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THE TWO GREATEST VICTORIAN WRITERS WRITING TO EACH OTHER
DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)
Top third of an Autograph Letter to “Dear THACKERAY”
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist) with the date, on his headed notepaper, 4¼” x 2¼”, Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, London, “Friday Twenty Eighth May”
some soiling on right hand edge
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
42910
£975
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DICKENS AT THE TIME WHEN ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ WAS JUST COMING OUT
DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter in his characteristic blue ink, with his embellished monogram ‘C.D.’ to Frederic CHAPMAN
(1823-1895, Publisher and partner in Chapman and Hall) sending “another little job for Clowes’s. It is a very short one. I have written all needful instructions fro the printer. Will you let them have a few sheets of the same paper as before, and direct them to pull three piles [?] for me (when revised) as in the other instances, and then to distribute. Speed will be a great convenience to m, as my Reading time is fast drawing on and I want the book by me any hour...” 1 side 8vo., Gads Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Saturday Night, 1st September
Item Date:
1861
Stock No:
42430
£4250
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[DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)]
Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by John and Charles Watkins
showing him full length seated at a table with a cloth on it, holding up a book, he is wearing a casual jacket and trousers and looking straight at the camera, 4" x 2½", London, no date circa
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
39348
£175
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DICKENS’S 1867 TOUR OF AMERICA
DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)
Engraved invitation to Dickens's farewell dinner prior to his departure for America
“Dinner given to Mr Charles Dickens on the occasion of His Departure for the United States, Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen St, Saturday, November 2nd 1867, Seven o’clock...”, the tickets are priced at One Guinea each, this one is numbered 39, 4½” x 3”, no place
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41977
£575
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