Autograph letter, signed, to the Dean of Peterborough Sir , pledging a public performance of “A Christmas Carol”

by Charles Dickens

$25,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Written on the first and last pages of a folded sheet in blue ink. Chemise and half green morocco slipcase with spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Swann November 26, 2013, sale 2333, lot 270 . Item #374851 In late summer of 1855, Dickens agrees to a public reading of A Christmas Carol, already a much-loved work, at Peterborough in December. He first read his ghost story of Christmas at Birmingham in 1853, and had reprised the

• Binding: Leather

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