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Dickens, Charles
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Dickens, Charles
- Autograph letter signed, to Richard Greene
- PAPER
thanking him on behalf of himself, Thomas Carlyle, and John Forster for his support raising funds for the impoverished God-daughters of Samuel Johnson, expressing his particular pleasure that assistance had been forthcoming from the people of Lichfield ("...No help rendered to these poor ladies could possibly be so graceful and welcome as aid coming from the place that boasts of having given Johnson birth...), 3 pages, 8vo, Paris, 3 November 1855, loose in a collector's folder, light marks on final verso where removed from mount
Literature
The Letters of Charles Dickens, VII, pp.736-37
Catalogue Note
DESPITE BEING PREOCCUPIED WITH LITTLE DORRIT, DICKENS MOUNTS A CAMPAIGN TO HELP THE GOD-DAUGHTERS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. This letter followed a public appeal in The Times on 31 October 1855 by Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and John Forster on behalf of Ann and Frances Lowe, elderly daughters of the artist Mauritius Lowe and God-daughters of Samuel Johnson. It was written to a Lichfield banker who not only donated £5 but also promised to distribute copies of the appeal amongst the people of the town.