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Charles Dickens ALS & Original Photo

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Charles Dickens ALS & Original Photo

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Auction Date:2014 Oct 24 @ 20:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Location:4000 Ponce DeLeon Blvd. Suite #470, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
Charles Dickens hand written and signed letter with original period CDV photo of Dickens. This handwritten and signed letter with Dickens' distinctive signature features his usual elaborate paraph. It is marked private on top. Labeled Wednesday night it is believed this letter is from Dickens when he was the editor of the Daily News a paper her started in about 1845. The letter is a little cryptic but does refer to a letter and situation with a Mr. Danson and Thomas Hodgskin one of his writers who he recruited for his newly formed Newspaper. This letter might relate to a specific situation where Hodgskin felt undermined by his editor Dickens, when he passed over for a leader column by another editor a John Towne Danson the financial editor, based on this and other clashes, Dickens did give up his role as editor shortly thereafter.