Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/80
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHARLES DICKENS AND DOUGHTY STREET. 1499 [DICKENS (CHARLES). ] AGREEMENT BETWEEN EDWARD WILSON BANKS AND CHAR DICKENS FOR THE LAITER RENTING No. 48, DOUGHTY STREET. Written on 3 folio pages, Signed by Edward Banks, 3rd April, 1837. This interesting Document commences:— ‘* Articles of Agreement made and entered into this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. Between Edward Wilscn Banks of Witham in the County of Essex Gentleman of the one part and Charles Dickens of No. 15. _. . . Furnivals Inn in the City of London Esquire . . . Of the other part The said Hdward Wilson Banks Doth hereby agree to let unto the said’ Charles Dickens All that Messuage or Dwelling house situate standing and being in Doughty Street in the Parish of Saint Pancras in the County of Middlesex and now marked or numbered 48 late in the occupation of John Welch with all and every the outhouses buildings yards gardens rights members privileges and appurtenances To hold the same unto the said Charles Dickens his executors and administrators from the twenty fifth day of March last for the Term of Three Years thence next ensuing.’’ Etc. Following the Agreement is a Schedule giving details as to the fitments of the house. From this Agreement it is interesting to note that Charles Dickens did not enter Doughty Street till the 3rd of Apri! or after, and there- fore Forster, in his Life of Dickens, is in error when he states that Dickens went there in March. INVENTORY OF THE FIXTURES BELONGING TO JOHN WELCH, ESQ., TAKEN AT No. 48, DOUGHTY STREET, AND VALUED TO C. DICKENS, ESQ., MARCH, 1837. Inventory written on 7 pages, and on the final page the value, signed by the Valuers, as follows:— ‘The Fixtures &c., mentioned in the foregoing Inventory are valued Forty four Pounds Seven Shillings by Thos. Handisyde & Son & Charles Connor Hackney.”’ and at foot receipt for the money paid. Together, the two items, £250