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.
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 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 le...
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: "Thi...
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: "Thi...
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...