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The Cricket on the hearth : in three chirps : [London] : autograph manuscript signed, [1845].

BIB_ID
108224
Accession number
MA 949
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1845].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1919.
Description
1 item [4] (3-72 p.) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
The notes for names of characters, list of trial titles, and pages 1 and 48 are loose in a folder preceding the manuscript. The note from Georgina Hogarth is encapsulated in mylar but not post-bound.
With notes for names of characters (MA 949.1); an autograph title page and list of trial titles (MA 949.2); and an undated note from Georgina Hogarth (MA 949.3) preceding the manuscript. These items are cataloged individually in three additional records; see related records for complete description.
Provenance
Bookplate of Charles Dickens; given in 1871 by John Forster to Charles Dickens' sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth; purchased from Miss Hogarth by the London dealer Spenser; purchased from Spenser by Edmund D. Brooks of Minneapolis; purchased from Brooks by the London dealer Frank Sabin; purchased from Sabin by the New York dealer Gabriel Wells; purchased from Wells by J. P. Morgan Jr. in 1919.
Summary
Manuscript with innumerable cancellations and revisions. Manuscript is signed on accompanying title page (MA 949.2).