Our mutual friend : autograph manuscript, 1865 Sept. 2.

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Our mutual friend : autograph manuscript, 1865 Sept. 2.

The manuscript as sent to the printer with innumerable cancellations and corrections. Manuscript is dated September 2nd, 1865 on final page. Text of the novel is preceded by: a list (10 p.) of chapter headings with parallel columns of Dickens' notes for the same, and by a blank page with Dickens' signature, dated Thursday Fourth January, 1866. The upper part of this blank leaf, evidently containing the name of a friend to whom the manuscript was given, has been cut away.

4 v. (ca. 220 p.) ; 26.2 cm.

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