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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DICKSON
Archive of 7 Autograph Letters and 5 Typed Letters Signed "Dickie" to Dennis WHEATLEY
(1897-1977, Novelist) the first says he is "very sorry indeed to hear of the rotten time you have been having since February and of that bad ten days in Madrid. Joan must have been very worried. I have never had pleurisy but can imagine it is no fun! ...", 3 sides folio, 7 sides 4to., and 11 aides 8vo., 39 Hyde Park Gate and Air Ministry headed paper, 20th March 1955 to 23rd February
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
40564
£750
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DONALDSON
(Sir James, 1831-1915, Principal of St. Andrews University)
Autograph Letter Signed to John Burnet, 1863-1928, Professor of Greek,
saying "I gladly give my sanction to the use of the Hall of the United College for rehearsals ... I spoke to Mr Bennett about ... keeping up the type of the Buchanan poems" and suggests Burnet and Bennett determine whether the expense justifies it, 2 sides 8vo., c/o D. Steele, 2 Via Pico della Mirandola, Florence, 13th May
identification on blank fourth side in the hand of collector John MacKilligan of Lossiemouth
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
51208
£45
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DOUGLAS
(O., pen-name of Anna Buchan, d. 1948)
Autograph Letter Signed on postcard to Alastair M. Wallace,
thanking him for his "most kind letter. Nelson published in Spring a 1/6 edition of 'Pink Sugar' ", Bank House, Peebles, 30th September
adhesion on address panel with loss of a few letters
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
16836
£15
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