Sales catalogue 449: Maggs Bros

Date:
1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/28
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 449: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I51 ‘NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.’’ BICKENS (CHARLES). RUTOGRAPH LETTER: SIGNED. FO. MRO. 1. P.. GRINSTED- OF BRIGHTON. 1 page, 4to. Devonshire Terrace, 25th March, 1840. Autograph address on fly-leaf, £18 10s A fine quarto letter concerning the Nickleby Club formed in honour of Dickens and his novel ‘‘ Nicholas Nickleby.’’ “T have to thank you . . . and through you to thank those gentlemen who remembered me in their flowing cups Jast Thursday. “Do me the favor to convey to the Nickleby Club, the warmest expression of my gratitude and interest in their proceedings. I trust they may continue to hold me, and 1 them, in pleasant and cheerful recollection for very inany years, and long connect their recreations with a name which is naturally associated in my mind with favourite and familiar thoughts.” 152 LITTLE DORRIT. DICKENS (CHARLES). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO COLONEL WAUGH. 3% pp., Svo. Tavistock House, 9 May,’ 1856. | £15 15s A very fine letter in which he mentions that he is hard at work on his book ‘* Little Dorrit.”’ cer : It would give me real pleasure to return my cheerful assent : but I am so ) busy with my book just now, that to enter upon the getting up of a play with the attention and completeness that alone make that pursuit interesting to me, would be to undertake a painiul labor. [I honestly assure you that I have not the time for it, and that my thoughts are too much occupied. ~, The necessity I am often under of preserving a perfect command over my fimo; and of adapting all my habits to my art, involves many little sacrifices of social enjoyment. . ‘i “ And indeed I have even a dramatic reason (in addition to the beckoning hand of Little Dorrit) for betaking myself resolutely to country quiet and country hours until the late Autumn. We have projects for another Play at home at Christmas time, and | must earn the leisure for that enjoyment in the future by diligent present work.” Kte. 66e