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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Higham, to Wilkie Collins, 1867 July 2.

BIB_ID
289618
Accession number
MA 93.127
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1867 July 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins. Letters are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed Charles Dickens.
Summary
Apologizing in the form of a mock legal document that the All the Year Round annual Christmas number [No Thoroughfare, on which Dickens and Collins were collaborating] is composed of 48 (rather than 32) pages. With "Bumble (Puppy)" acting as witness to Dickens' signature and apology.