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 candlestick above his head I think. It looks more comical, the light having gone out." Beneath the scene he writes in ink: "A fat chairman so short as our friend here, never drew breath in Bath. I would leave him where he is, decidedly. Is the lady full dressed? She ought to be. CD." The etching of this scene was first published in part No. XIII of The Pickwick Papers. Provenance: Stuart Samuel, Edward Lowell Dean, Lewis A. Hird.
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.
["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.
A drawing done with brush in black ink and grey ink over black chalk, heightened with white, on paper 26.5 cm. x 16.5 cm. A study of John Jasper, for "In the Court."
["Under the Trees"]. A drawing done with brush in black ink and white body-color over black chalk, on paper 17 cm. x 27 cm. To the left there is a study in black chalk of Rose Bud standing. The wood-engraving of the main scene was first published as a plate in part No. 1 of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
