Nov 01, 2001 - Sale 1912

Sale 1912 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, to poet Bernard Barton, agreeing to vote for William Murrell and apparently quoting Barton's letter to him on the difference between himself as a popular novelist and the Quaker poet. 1 page, folded 8vo sheet; usual folds.<\t>London, 10 May 1848
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"I beg to assure you that I am happy to comply with your request and that I will reserve my vote for William Murrell. I am very glad to correspond with you, no less for your own sake than in so good a cause; and I am not sensible of any 'difference between the popular novelist and the quaker poet,' except that the latter is the more modest of the two . . ."<