"In St. Giles, Bloomsbury. 'Why, Mister Adolphus, Who'd Ha' Thought of Seeing You in the Holy Ground? 'How Dye Know Who I Am?' Lord Bless Ye, Sir! Not Know Ye! Why I'd Know Ye if Ye Was Boiled up in Soup.'" A drawing in pen and brown ink and watercolor, on paper 12 cm. x 15 cm.
"'I say, Bill, 'ave Yer Seen Wot's His Name?' 'Wot Yer Mean, Wot D'ye Callum?' 'O No! Not 'im. That 'ere Other.' 'Oh, ah. I Seed Him Fast Enuff.'" A drawing in pen and brown ink and watercolor over pencil, on paper 14.5 cm. x 11.5 cm., mounted.
"Mr. Charles Dickens as 'Captain Bobadil.'" A drawing in pen and brown ink on pale blue paper 24 cm. x 16 cm. This drawing and the following two drawings were executed by Meadows for a review in The London Illustrated News of Every Man in His Humour as staged by Dickens's amateur theatrical group. The review, published on page 329 in the 22 November 1845 issue of the paper, was illustrated with wood-engraved copies of Meadows's drawings. Cuttings from The London Illustrated News accompany the drawings.
"Aunt Kate." This collotype print, adapted from a photograph of Katherine Hogarth Dickens, appears to be shaded by hand with brush and black ink; it is mounted on paperboard and cut roughly following the shape of the subject. There are elements here of a print, photograph, drawing, and family memento. The title comes from the name written faintly in pencil on the back of the paperboard mounting.
A tapered cylindrical match-box of polished horn, 7 cm. tall by 4 cm. in diameter at the top, tapering down to 3 cm. in diameter at the base. Dickens's initials are engraved on a silver stud that is fixed into the cap of the match-box. It is accompanied by the following certificate of authenticity: "I certify that this horn match box was always used by my brother-in-law Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill until the time of his death--9th June 1870--and that it always stood on his desk and is shown in the picture of 'The Empty Chair' by Sir Luke Fildes, R.A., and has since stood on my desk and been used by me. Georgina Hogarth."
The desk-calendar from Dickens's study at Gad's Hill. Made of wood carved in a gothic style and measuring 11 cm. wide by 5 cm. deep by 9 cm. tall, the calendar is divided into three tiers holding white paper cards printed in red with day of the week, the month, and the numerical day of the month. The calendar is arranged to read "Wednesday June 8." With it is a letter of testimony from Georgina Hogarth, who writes: "I certify that this small daily calendar was standing on the writing table of Charles Dickens on the day of his death--8th June 1870--and it is introduced into the picture by Luke Fildes, R.A., which was published in the Graphic and called 'The Empty Chair.'"
A slate 21 cm. x 16 cm., of white porcelain framed in black leather, with a sheath for a pencil. The following is written in pencil on the slate: "This memorandum slate was the one used by Charles Dickens and was on his writing desk at his death. It is shown in the drawing I made of 'The Empty Chair' and was given to me, together with one of the quill pens and a sheet of paper that lay on the desk, by Miss Hogarth at Gad's Hill in June 1870. Luke Fildes." See the following two items (the quill pen and the manuscript paper).
