"Wilkie Collins.” An autograph manuscript of 3 pages, on 3 leaves, being an autobiographical sketch of Collins. In the bibliography that closes this piece (which goes up to 1870), Collins writes that the play No Thoroughfare was "written in collaborat...
Autograph letter, signed, of 28 June 1880 to Thomas Atkinson. Collins refers to an autobiographical sketch published in "the volume called men in This Time." The manuscript in question was owned by Richard Gimbel; see entry H1239. Collins also writes ...
Dickens, Alfred Lamert. Autograph letter, signed, to Mr. Wade. A fragment, with only the outside address, the complimentary close, and signature surviving.
Autograph letter, signed, of 6 May 1873 to Edward B. L. ("Plorn") Dickens. A long letter from mother to son, telling of the death of Charles Collins and touching on other family matters.
Fildes, Samuel Luke. Autograph letter, signed, of 6 May 1912 to Lord Curzon. The artist tells of his role in illustrating The Mystery of Edwin Drood. "Charles Dickens told me on an occasion & under circumstances that left no doubt in my mind, that Jas...
Unknown Correspondent. Autograph letter of "Friday" to Richard Herne Shepherd. In place of a signature of this letter makes a pen-and-brown-ink sketch of Dickens, and writes: "Wot's his name!" The letter is not in Dickens's handwriting.
["Mr. Winkle's Situation When the Door Blew To"]. A drawing done with pen and brush in grey ink over pencil, heightened with white, on paper 22 cm. x 16.5 cm., mounted. At the head of this drawing Dickens writes in ink: "Winkle should be holding the c...
A drawing in pencil, on tracing-paper 12.5 cm. x 18.5 cm., mounted. In this drawing of a scene from Bleak House, Jo is depicted sweeping in the midst of the crowd at the crossing. The style suggests that the drawing was made by Browne in the 1870s.
