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.
["In the Court"]. A drawing done with brush in black ink and white body-color over black chalk, on paper 16.5 cm. x 27 cm. The wood-engraving of this scene was first published as a plate in part No. I of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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 leaves, which are summarized in Pilgrim II, in the fourth note on page 386, were inscribed at various times by twelve other men; John Leech’s drawing of “Old Scrooge” stands out on the page where Dickens’s quotation appears.
"Scrooge's Third Visitor." A drawing in watercolor over pencil, on paper 15.5 cm. x 9.5 cm., mounted. The hand-colored etching of this scene was first published at page 78 of A Christmas Carol. Provenance: Stuart Samuel, William Randolph Hearst, Lewis A. Hird.
"Hollo, Jim, Where Are You Going with Yours?' 'Hesplandae!-Where Be You?' 'Prospect Place!'" A drawing in pen and brown ink and watercolor over pencil, on paper 16 cm. x 11 cm. This humorous drawing and the following five drawings were probably executed for Punch. None of them relates to Dickens.
Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Autograph manuscript on page proof of 106 leaves; on 16 pages; containing approximately 15 words, and scattered editorial marks, in the hand of Dickens. There are 209 pages of printed text in these leaves of proof which Dickens gave to S. Luke Fildes to guide him in illustrating the novel. The full text of the novel is here, with a duplicate set of gathering M (pages 161-176), one leaf of galleys, and three fragmentary pieces of proof. All is described in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, edited by Margaret Cardwell (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972), on pages [256]-266.
["The Empty Chair. Gad's Hill-Ninth of June 1870"]. A drawing in black chalk and pencil, and brush and white body-color, on paper 33 cm. x 54 cm. This drawing is perhaps the first sketch that Fildes made of Dickens's study at Gad's Hill for what was to become a famous and widely published picture; see entry H1070.
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.
