Beschreibung:

Collection of twelve autograph letters signed, to various correspondents, including Dickens's friend John Forster (misspelt), Herman Merivale, Swynfen Jervis, F.A. Carrington ("...Any body who gives me a hint, to supply an omission, does me a favour..."), C. Paine ("...You shall be informed when I embark in any fresh reprinting project..."), H.J. Hall ("...In a few days you will receive my Reprint of 'England's Helicon' Part 2..."), Samuel Timmins ("...I require pre-payment only to avoid infringement of the law respecting publication..."), the bookseller [Edward] Walford ("...All success to you!..."), and a less-esteemed confrere ("...If you have a good business, you will ruin it by such peremptory notes as you annex to your bill..."); together with a letter to Collier by Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum ("...All that I did in regard to Shakespeare's Will, was to revise a proof of it, set up for Rodd, by the Original in the Prerog. Office. I have the proof still by me & shall be happy to shew it to you..." [the letter undated but presumably prior to Halliwell's edition of 1851, itself based on Rodd's suppressed transcript]), and a letter by J.O. Halliwell himself (see below); together with an inscribed offprint of 'The Crimes and Repentance of John Payne Collier' by Samuel Schoenbaum, TLS, 26 June 1969, some 20 pages, the letter to Merivale laid down, 4to, 8vo and 16mo, Maidenhead, Kensington and elsewhere, 1835-1880