Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/853
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    775 =A.L.s. 1p. 4to, Paris, 48 Rue de Courcelles, 13 Nov. 1846, to Lord Jeffrey, Scottish judge and critic, editor “ Edinburgh Review,” referring to “'The Battle of Life” and “ Dombey,” with franked address on verso : ... We have come from Switzerland, all well and happy, and purpose remaining here until the end of March. My friend Forster, who does all my business for me in England while I am away and is my right hand and cool shrewd head too, will send you by post, probably in the course of this week, proofs of the Christmas Book. ‘There is something ‘in the idea, that I hope will please you. It will not be published until the 18th of December ... Dombey is a great success. I have forgotten all about the newspapers, and don’t believe I ever had anything to do With it). 4: 776 A.L.s. 2pp. 8vo, 1 Chester Place, Regent's Park, 14th April, 1847, to J. Serle, Esq. referring to “* Dombey ” : I am residing here protem: until I can get my own respected tenant out of Devonshire ‘Terrace, at the end of July. Your proposal in reference to the happy pair (I hope Forster is not a jackass, but appear- ances are against him) meets with my fullest concurrence. Don’t you think it would be well to make that seven pounds-ten? ‘The difference is not great, and the latter has a pleasanter aspect to me. If you should have any commands for Australia after Dombey is finished, I think of making a little excursion there. I shall come round home by way of China (if you want any chopsticks), desiring to ascertain for myself whether the inhabitants of that country really dance with their fore- fingers going up and down close to their ears—and whether twelve of them look at once P.S. and then O.P.—and whether they get behind one another in a row, the tallest man last and a boy in front—as I have seen them represented once or twice in the British Draymer. You can think about your commissions. Dombey has twelve months to run. wy A.L.s. (third person) $p. 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 5th Feb. 1850, to Mr. Shand, referring to “Sketches by Boz,” with envelope : Mr. Charles Dickens sends his compliments to Mr. Shand. ‘The sketches were first published. Part of them appeared in the Morning Chronicle; part in the Monthly Magazine. 778 «6A. Ls. 2 pp. 8vo, Tavistock House, First May, 1855, containing a paragraph from “ David Copperfield ” : ... Thinking you might like this all the better if it were associated with one of my books. I transcribe a few words from David Copper- field on the opposite side. The paragraph describes Betsey Trotwood Copperfield as being “ for ever in.the land of dreams and shadows.” 779 A.L.s. 24 pp. 8vo0, Dover, Second May, 1856, to J. T. Gordon, Esq. mentioning the success of “ Little Dorrit” : . They are all well at Paris, amd would send all manner of