Autograph Manuscript, a partial draft of a letter recounting his final visit with and news of the death of Jerrold, 2 pp (numbered "3" and "4"), 4to (conjoining leaves), n.p., [1857], creasing, toning, some smudging. In his biography of his father, Blanchard Jerrold describes a letter from Charles Dickens describing Jerrold's last days that bears a great resemblance to this fragment, which begins: "... when we got into the sunshine of the streets, I saw that he looked ill. We were both engaged to drive with Mr. Runnell at Greenwich, and I thought him so ill then that I advised him not to go, just to let me take him, or send him, home in a cab." They continue on with their day, however, and go to a dinner party that evening, and the next morning Jerrold said to Dickens he felt better: "'I have quite got over the paint, and I am perfectly well.' He was really elated over the relief of having recovered and was as quietly happy as I have seen him. We exchanged 'God bless you!' and shook hands. / I went down to Gad's Hill next morning, where he was to write after a little while, appointing his own time for coming to see me here. A week afterwards, and the passenger in a Railway carriage in which I was on my way to London Bridge, opened his morning paper, and said 'Douglas Jerrold is dead!'"
Autograph Manuscript, a partial draft of a letter recounting his final visit with and news of the death of Jerrold, 2 pp (numbered "3" and "4"), 4to (conjoining leaves), n.p., [1857], creasing, toning, some smudging. In his biography of his father, Blanchard Jerrold describes a letter from Charles Dickens describing Jerrold's last days that bears a great resemblance to this fragment, which begins: "... when we got into the sunshine of the streets, I saw that he looked ill. We were both engaged to drive with Mr. Runnell at Greenwich, and I thought him so ill then that I advised him not to go, just to let me take him, or send him, home in a cab." They continue on with their day, however, and go to a dinner party that evening, and the next morning Jerrold said to Dickens he felt better: "'I have quite got over the paint, and I am perfectly well.' He was really elated over the relief of having recovered and was as quietly happy as I have seen him. We exchanged 'God bless you!' and shook hands. / I went down to Gad's Hill next morning, where he was to write after a little while, appointing his own time for coming to see me here. A week afterwards, and the passenger in a Railway carriage in which I was on my way to London Bridge, opened his morning paper, and said 'Douglas Jerrold is dead!'"
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