The battle of life : autograph manuscript, [1846].

Record ID: 
268212
Accession number: 
MA 98
Author: 
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description: 
1 item (ca. 64 p.), bound ; 25.4 cm
Notes: 

Written while Dickens was in Lausanne.

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.5 cm)
Binding: 
Red leather with gilt border and blind-tooled corner-ornaments.
Provenance: 
Presented by the author to Madame Amelia Fillonneau, the sister of his friend Henry Austin; sold by Georgina Hogarth (for Madame Fillonneau) to Francis Harvey in 1880; sold by Harvey to William Wright; purchased by the London dealer Sotheran at Wright's sale in June 1899; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Sotheran in 1899.