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Dickens, Charles (1812 – 1870)
Dickens laments at ‘having to finish Chuzzlewit; which I shall be very glad to dispose of’…
A fine three-page autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens, adjoining sheets, June 5th 1844. The author writes to philanthropist John Kenyon.
In part: ‘I am rather late this morning or I would have answered your friendly note earlier. First, let me thank you for your kind and liberal donation to the Sanatorium. When they send you, as they will, a little report, do give it a perusal one morning at breakfast. It will show you what an excellent Institution it is, and how well it merits your voluntary support… We have at least one engagement for every day between this and the first of July, when we leave England. In this list I don’t include the slight engagement of having to finish Chuzzlewit; which I shall be very glad to dispose of, notwithstanding. We shall come and shake hands with you before we go… Mrs. Dickens sends her best regards.”
In fine condition, with a light stain to the top blank area of the last page.
A significant letter in which Dickens refers to his novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, originally serialized between January 1843 and July 1844, and considered to be the last of his picaresque novels.