Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens
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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens
Place Published: Devonshire Terrace
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Date Published: April 1, 1850
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Holograph letter signed by Charles Dickens. 17.8x22.2 cm (7x8¾"), folded in half with writing on rectos.
Signed by Charles Dickens with his characteristic enthusiasm for underlining. In this letter, Dickens (1812-1870) writes to Georgina Ross, a distant relative of his, regarding financial assistance for the author and playwright John Poole. At this time, Poole was elderly and in dire financial straits. Dickens and several friends including Edward Bulwer Lytton and John Forster sought to help Poole and other authors in similar situations. In the present letter, Dickens tells Ross that he had recently contacted Lord John Russell about a small pension for Poole and that he thinks it would be inappropriate to bring the matter up again. Dickens continued to independently reach out to Lord Russell and by December of 1850 Dickens had ensured that Poole would be granted a regular pension from the beginning of 1851 through June of that year.
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