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DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("CD") to Edmund Yates, 5 November 1858, contained in an album with letters by Ruskin and others

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Autograph letter signed ("CD"), to "My Dear Edmund" [Yates], stating that he is taking an early dinner and that he will find him at the Albion [Broadstairs] at half past four, 1 page, on headed paper, blank lower half of sheet removed, tipped into an album (lacking covers), originally 8vo, Office of Household Words, 5 November 1858

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CONTAINED IN AN ALBUM WITH LETTERS BY RUSKIN AND OTHERS. The autograph letter by Ruskin to Julia securing seats at Drury Lane ("...you know it's quite monstrous that Walter should have to go to school: he just mustn't..."); other letters by Michael Faraday (on examining salt, name of recipient removed), Alexander von Humboldt, James Augustus Grant, Jane [Lady] Franklin, Caroline Norton (thanking Thomas Hughes for his latest book – "I shall value it for your sake, as I used to value Tom Brown for its own – and that is setting it very high"), T.B. Macaulay, Jenny Ling Goldschmidt, A.W. Kinglake, Adam Sedgwick, Richard Owen, the Duke of Wellington, George Richmond, and others; the flyleaf inscribed "Harriet Brodrick from her affect.ate brother George C Brodrick [historian, afterwards Warden of Merton] June 29 (for May 6) 1861". See illustration overleaf.

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