Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (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
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ALS, one page, 4.25 x 6.5, Gad’s Hill Place letterhead, June 28, 1868. Letter to his lawyer. In full: “Thanks for your letter. I have told my son by this post that you recommend my doing nothing at present, except giving him some supply for current expenses. I had sent him at the same time £50 which will enable him to break up his establishment and pay his way as he goes on.” Double matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Dickens, to an overall size of 16.75 x 13.25. Intersecting folds (heavier vertical fold through single letter of signature), a bit of trivial soiling along the same fold, and small ink notation to top left corner, otherwise fine condition.
Dickens here is speaking of his seventh child, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, who embarked on a navy career but eventually fell heavily into debt. The son turned to his father for financial assistance, but the elder Dickens, furious that his child had become so reckless with his financial affairs, refused. Oddly enough, around this same period the famed novelist was struggling with his own issues—both physically and financially. Having wrapped up a reading tour in the United States two months prior, Dickens was unable to stomach solid food, preferring champagne and eggs beaten in sherry, and barely escaped a federal tax lien against the proceeds of his lecture tour. An interesting letter as the man who famously depicted hardships of the working class struggled with familial hardships of his own.
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