Fildes, S[amuel] Luke. "The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill--Ninth of June 1870." This large wood-engraving, which is printed on a sheet of plate paper 44 cm. x 62 cm., depicts Dickens's study at Gad's Hill on the day of his death. It is hand colored. Richard Gimbel owned Fildes's original sketch of the scene; see entry H1797. -- A second copy: Another impression. The typefae in the title is altered. This copy is not colored.
After George Cruikshank. “Dickens Beside Himself (from Sketches by Boz, Illustrated by George Cruikshank).” An etched portrait of Dickens based by Pailthorpe on a drawing in pencil made by Cruikshank in 1838, which is now in the Gimbel collection (see entry H1732).
Also present: Another issue, without the remarque-title and studies, but bearing the title, “Faithfully Yours Always, Charles Dickens”--being an etched facsimile of Dickens’s signature. Issue on India paper, mounted.
Lock and Whitfield, London, Photographers. A photograph of Frederick Dickens, taken circa 1867. He is seated with his legs crossed, reading from a book that sits on a pedestal. This carte-de-visite bears the photographers’ imprint.
Mayall, John, London, Photographer. A photograph of Catherine Hogarth Dickens, who is shown standing, with her blackgloved right hand resting on the back of a chair. The date of the photograph is unknowm; circa 1860 is suggested. This carte-de-visite bears the photographer’s imprint.
Watkins, Herbert, London, Photographer. An oval photograph of Alfred Lamert Dickens, taken in 1860. This carte-de-visite bears the imprint of the photographer.
"Wilkie Collins.” An autograph manuscript of 3 pages, on 3 leaves, being an autobiographical sketch of Collins. In the bibliography that closes this piece (which goes up to 1870), Collins writes that the play No Thoroughfare was "written in collaboration with Dickens and Fechter.”
Autograph letter, signed, of 28 June 1880 to Thomas Atkinson. Collins refers to an autobiographical sketch published in "the volume called men in This Time." The manuscript in question was owned by Richard Gimbel; see entry H1239. Collins also writes that "The Lighthouse is not published. As long as I kept this play in a manuscript, I keep it out of the reach of theatrical thieves.
Dickens, Alfred Lamert. Autograph letter, signed, to Mr. Wade. A fragment, with only the outside address, the complimentary close, and signature surviving.