Lot 213
Dickens, Charles
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£720
Description
Autograph letter signed, to the publisher Thomas Longman "My Dear Longman. If Wednesday next will suit you, we shall be happy to dine with you on that day in compliance with your pleasant invitation. In saying "We", I answer for the Trio. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens, Devonshire Terrace, Fourteenth February 1844, Thomas Longman Esquire".
Footnote
Note: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Vol. 12, page 589. The reference to 'the Trio' is there assumed to infer Dickens himself and his close friends John Forster and Daniel Maclise.