Autograph signed letter to Sir Joseph Paxton.

Bifolium (ca. 18 x 22,3 cm), [4] pp., written in blue ink on stationery paper with printed address "Tavistock House. Tavistock Square, London WC".

Kept in a blue leather portfolio, with loosely inserted typed transcript. In good condition.

Nice letter from Ch. Dickens (1812-1870) to the architect and landscape gardener Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), designer of the Crystal Palace in London, built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. In reply to a letter from Paxton, received 3 December. Dickens describes what happened on a dinner in Coventry that Paxton was unable to attend to.
Ref. K.M. Tillotson & Gr. Storey (ed.), The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. 8: 1856-1858 (1995).
Prov. John Fleming, New York rare bookdealer. - Presentation letter dated 17 September 1979 from Henry G. Walter, Jr. (International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., New York) to Muus G.J. Beets (vice president, Hilversum).