DICKENS, CHARLES
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("CHARLES DICKENS") TO MARION ELY ("MY DEAR MARION")
£938
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Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
assuring her "with the utmost truthfulness and heartiness, that the love of our old times is strong within me and that I never see your handwriting - far less, yourself, without a genuine interest and affection" and that he would have gladly come had it been possible ("... In the hope that we may make up a cheerful dinner here before long, and improvise a skirmishing dance after it, I send my love to Mary"), 2 pages, 8vo, Tavistock House, 19 January 1859, (purchased Bonhams, 23 March 2004, lot 345, for £600 hammer)