Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1870 June 23.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1870 June 23.

Asking the recipient to "jot down the points in [Pierce Egan's] 'Tom and Jerry' which you think must have struck the late great novelist when writing 'Pickwick'"; saying that he has discovered "singular testimony" that Dickens was drawing from Tom and Jerry when writing The Pickwick Papers; noting that he has "some most interesting early letters of Dickens."

1 item (2 p.) ; 17.4 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7173434

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