An "Address" to readers of Household Words. Autograph manuscript of 1 leaf; on 1 page; containing approximately 300 words. Dickens announces that he is starting a new magazine, All the Year Round, and will no longer be associated with Household Words....
A fragment of manuscript for "Aboard Ship," in New Uncommercial Samples. Autograph manuscript of 1 leaf; on 1 page; containing approximately 315 words. This passage, where the traveller sails from New York aboard a ship crowded with flowers, was publi...
Revisions in a fragment of proof for "Doctor's Commons," in Sketches by Boz, Second Series: "His clothes were nearly threadbare, but it was easy to see that he wore them so, from choice, and not from necessity; all his looks and gestures down to the v...
Autograph letter, signed, of 16 December 1869, published in Nonesuch III, pages 760-761. The letter was not written on 16 January 1870, as claimed in Nonesuch.
Autograph letter, signed, with envelope, of 27 April 1870, containing approximately 55 words. London. Dickens will see Fildes on the next day; he suggests the subjects to be illustrated in part No. V of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Autograph letter, signed, of 7 September 1853, containing approximately 90 words. London. In this "postscript" written on the inside of an envelope, Dickens thanks Macready for his "delightful note on the completion of B. H.--not the least of the joys...
To Albert Schloss. Autograph quotation, signed, of 22 January 1844, containing approximately 15 words. London. On this leaf, one of two from the visitors’ album of Schloss, Dickens writes: “And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us Every One!” These ...
Autograph letter, signed, of 24 November 1869, containing approximately 40 words. Gad's Hill Place. Dickens wishes that the whole of The Mystery of Edwin Drood could be set in type before serial publication begins, but he will be satisfied if half is ...