A "Prologue" to Wilkie Collins's play The Lighthouse. Autograph manuscript of 1 leaf; on 2 pages; containing approximately 190 words. Dickens wrote this piece for Collins's melodrama when it was first staged at Tavistock House in June 1856.
Fragments of the manuscript of the play, O'Thello. Autograph manuscript of 2 leaves; on 4 pages; containing approximately 495 words. The first leaf, from an unknown part of the play, is headed on both sides by the following handwritten testimony: "This manuscript is in the handwriting of Mr. Charles Dickens forming a leaf of the manuscript of a burlesque on Othello, written by him for performance in his own family in the year 1833," signed "John Dickens, Alphington, 17 July 1842." The second leaf is a fragment of Act I, Scene 3. The play was not printed.
Fragments of the manuscript of the play, O'Thello. Autograph manuscript of 2 leaves; on 4 pages; containing approximately 495 words. The first leaf, from an unknown part of the play, is headed on both sides by the following handwritten testimony: "This manuscript is in the handwriting of Mr. Charles Dickens forming a leaf of the manuscript of a burlesque on Othello, written by him for performance in his own family in the year 1833," signed "John Dickens, Alphington, 17 July 1842." The second leaf is a fragment of Act I, Scene 3. The play was not printed.