I Shall Be Glad To Investigate The Subject To Which You So Obligingly Invite My Attention Myself A 16
$3,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector
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Gads Hill Place, Kent: 1868. This is a 16 November 1868 autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens 18 months before his death to a London doctor, making arrangements to view a new children’s hospital. Dickens would ultimately champion the hospital in print, helping raise funds for an eventual move. The letter is testimony that “At his death Dickens was regarded… not simply as a great writer but also as… a champion of the poor and downtrodden, who had striven hard
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