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Auction archive: Lot number 1118

DICKENS, CHARLES.

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 1118

DICKENS, CHARLES.

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Autograph Letter Signed integrally ("Mr Charles Dickens " "Mr Dickens"), 1 p, 8vo, integral blank, Gad's Hill, Kent, December 20, 1869, to the Secretary of the School for the Indigent Blind, together with original transmittal envelope, letter fine, envelope soiled. Dickens donates one of his books printed in raised letters by Julia Ward Howe's husband. In part: "Mr Charles Dickens ... begs to say that he has received from America two copies of his story 'The Old Curiosity Shop,' printed in raised letters for the use of the Blind which he forwards as a present to the pupils in St. Georges Fields by train to day. Before Mr Dickens left America on the occasion of his last visit to the States, he left a sum of money with his friend Dr. Howe of Boston to be expended in the production of the Edition of which the two copies in question are a specimen." During his first trip to America in 1842, Dickens visited the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston and met its director Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. Dr. Howe, who shortly after married Julia Ward of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" fame, was developing a printing press for the production of books for the blind. After Dickens returned to America in 1867, Dr. Howe complained that the only book easily available to the blind was Paradise Lost; Dickens consequently ordered 250 copies of The Old Curiosity Shop at a cost of $1,700 for donation to "blind asylums"—an act of philanthropy that went unpublicized until after his death. See illustration.

Auction archive: Lot number 1118
Auction:
Datum:
4 Oct 2010
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Autograph Letter Signed integrally ("Mr Charles Dickens " "Mr Dickens"), 1 p, 8vo, integral blank, Gad's Hill, Kent, December 20, 1869, to the Secretary of the School for the Indigent Blind, together with original transmittal envelope, letter fine, envelope soiled. Dickens donates one of his books printed in raised letters by Julia Ward Howe's husband. In part: "Mr Charles Dickens ... begs to say that he has received from America two copies of his story 'The Old Curiosity Shop,' printed in raised letters for the use of the Blind which he forwards as a present to the pupils in St. Georges Fields by train to day. Before Mr Dickens left America on the occasion of his last visit to the States, he left a sum of money with his friend Dr. Howe of Boston to be expended in the production of the Edition of which the two copies in question are a specimen." During his first trip to America in 1842, Dickens visited the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston and met its director Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. Dr. Howe, who shortly after married Julia Ward of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" fame, was developing a printing press for the production of books for the blind. After Dickens returned to America in 1867, Dr. Howe complained that the only book easily available to the blind was Paradise Lost; Dickens consequently ordered 250 copies of The Old Curiosity Shop at a cost of $1,700 for donation to "blind asylums"—an act of philanthropy that went unpublicized until after his death. See illustration.

Auction archive: Lot number 1118
Auction:
Datum:
4 Oct 2010
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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