Purchased, 1944.
1 item (ca. 471 p.), unbound ; 22.7 cm
High reserve.
Given by Charles Dickens to his friend Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1828-1879), journalist of the London-Times; Mr. George W. Childs of Philadelphia; given by Childs to the Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia; purchased from the Drexel Institute Sale, New York, October 17, 1944 (cat. no. 67).
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.
Blue cloth drop-spine boxes (30.8 and 31.7 cm)