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 i...
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, ...
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 accompani...
"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 o...
"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 a...