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DICKENS (CHARLES) Two autograph envelopes, both signed ("Charles Dickens") in the lower left-hand corner, one to his wife ("Mrs Charles Dickens./ Devonshire Terrace"), hand-delivered and unstamped, the other to his son Edmund ("Edmund Dickens Esquire/ 9 St James Gardens/ Haverstock Hill/ N.W."), the latter postmarked, London, 15 January 1870
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'MRS CHARLES DICKENS' – an envelope addressed by Dickens to his wife at No. 1 Devonshire Terrace, where the family lived between 1839 and 1851. Edmund, addressee of the second, was son of Dickens's younger brother Alfred Lamert, who worked as a railway engineer (and was the only one of his brothers to make a satisfactory career for himself). When Alfred died of pleurisy in 1860, Charles took his widow and family under his wing; Edmund travelling in the second of the family coaches at his uncle's Abbey funeral, alongside Georgina Hogarth. No letter to Edmund of this date is recorded in the Pilgrim Edition.





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