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Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens

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Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, black-bordered Gad’s Hill place letterhead, January 14, 1862. Letter to H. W. Phillips. In full: “My reply to your letter has been delayed by my absence, in Devonshire. The Artists’ General Benevolent Fund hast a claim upon my sympathy and service to which I most readily respond. I will preside at their anniversary dinner and do my best for them but as a duty and a pleasure. The day you mention in your letter, the 29th of March, would suit me very well. But as I shall be reading in London at almost that time, it is necessary for me to mention, in case the day should be changed and another proposed, that I am pre-engaged for Thursdays.” In fine condition, with reinforcement to inside of hinge, mounting remnants to reverse of second page, and some scattered light toning. The Artists’ General Benevolent Fund, founded in 1814 by J. M. W. Turner, is one of the oldest British charities, and benefits artists who can no longer work. Shortly before this letter was penned, Dickens had finished serializing Great Expectations.