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 Jasper murdered Edwin Drood." Fildes writes that Edwin Drood was strangled with the double neck-scarf that Jasper wore on the night of the storm.
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.
