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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>CHARLES DICKENS </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Dickens In Parliament?<BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1812-1870). Prolific English novelist, one of the most popular writers in literary history, noted for his use of irony and symbolic social criticism of his narratives, including <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> and <i>David Copperfield</i>. ALS plus an AL of which signature and lower half of second leaf is removed, 3½pp, 1st & 3rd of each, 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park, May 31 and Jun 10, 1841. Both to [Liberal Party agent and librarian George Lovejoy], discussing Lovejoy’s suggestion that Dickens run for a seat in the new Parliament. In part, “...<i>I am much obliged and flattered by the receipt of your letter...My principles and inclinations would lead me to aspire to the distinction you invite me to seek, if there were any reasonable chance of success...But I am bound to add...I cannot afford the expense of a contested election. If I could, I would act on your suggestion instantly. I am not the less indebted to you and the friends to whom the thought occurred, for your good opinion and approval.</i>..”; and “...<i>The sum you mention, though small I am aware in the abstract, is greater than I could afford for such a purpose; as the mere sitting in the House and attending to my duties, if I were a member, would oblige me to make many pecuniary sacrifices, consequent upon the very nature of my pursuits...I cannot satisfy myself that to enter Parliament under such circumstances would enable me to pursue that honourable independence without which I could nether preserve my own respect nor that of my constituents</i>...” Mounting remains on verso of both letters with some show-through of attendant staining; light general soiling; else in good/very good condition. Published in Vol. Two of the Pilgrim edition of <i>The Letters of Charles Dickens.</i> Lovejoy had written to Dickens on May 29 submitting a query referencing the upcoming election of new Parliament. He suggests that Reading needs a candidate to succeed the retiring liberal member Fyshe Palmer and advises that although the campaign expenses are not great, the candidate must bear them. The thought to pose the possibility of Dickens’ candidacy had occurred to a few of his friends.</span></p>
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