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The Pickwick papers : autograph manuscript of a single page : [England], [ca. 1836].

BIB_ID
291243
Accession number
MA 2744
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[ca. 1836].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Henry S. Morgan, Mrs. James H. Ripley, and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Shilling, 1972.
Description
1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 23 cm
Notes
With corrections.
Provenance
From the Comte de Suzannet Collection; sale (Sotheby's, 23 Nov. 1971, lot 303: the first of 12 pages in this lot, numbered from 69 to 80).
Summary
With heading in Dickens' hand that reads "69 / Chapter XXXVI," but the page in fact corresponds to the first page of Chapter XXXVII in the printed edition. The text begins, "Honorably accounts for Mr Weller's absence...."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.1 cm)