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Autograph Letter Signed (“Charles Dickens”), 3 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoining leaves), Devonshire Terrace, January 2, 1843 [but 1844], to T.J. Serle, leaves mildly toned and thumb, some soiling to p 4, mounting remnants at hinge. Dickens writes a colleague regarding the placement of one of the orphaned daughters of the actor Edward William Elton. In part: ”The lady with whom the Ali Baba Miss Elton resides, has sent me the enclosed note. I answered it by saying that the committee met tonight, and I had no doubt would readily comply with the request. We may make the sum a part of Mr. Perry’s accounts perhaps. I therefore enclose a blank cheque, with my signature. I have received ten shillings additional, the amount of sundry subscriptions, from Mr. John Redish of the York and London Assurance Office. I have paid fifteen shillings for three Insertions of the ‘Companion’ advertisement in The Times. Whereby the Estate owes the Inimitable B. five shillings.” See illustration.