Auction Date:2013 Dec 11 @ 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 signed “Wilmot,” one page, 4.5 x 7, black-bordered Gad’s Hill Place letterhead, December 5, 1863. Letter to Peter Cunningham. In part: “I am delighted to get the hearty letter of my old Will's-Coffee-House friend, Le Trimmer; and again the shade of poor dead Middlesex crosses me, saying 'Here's Peter, won't come on, you know!'—then in a ghostly manner, raps gold snuff-box, and fades into the other world…God bless us all this coming Christmas, and give us Christmas thoughts!, of which our letter is full, and so most welcome. My love to your good wife and you.” In fine condition, with a bit of scattered light soiling to top and bottom edges.
In May of 1851, Charles Dickens and Edward Bulwer-Lytton—the two best-selling authors of their time—put on their first production of Bulwer-Lytton’s play Not So Bad as We Seem to raise funds for their newly founded Guild of Literature and Art. They gathered an all-star cast of authors and artists and appeared before Queen Victoria, as well as all of London’s major critics, delivering a remarkable performance. Playing the lead role of Lord Wilmot, Dickens especially received rave reviews. In this wonderfully theatrical letter to friend Peter Cunningham, the Scottish writer and actor who played the role of Lord Le Trimmer, Dickens playfully revisits the legendary past performance. With the desirable closing allusion to his own Christmas Carol, this is a phenomenal letter touching on both his famous holiday novel and his active life in the theater.
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