ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Gad's Hill Place letterhead, March 3, 1870. Letter to a gentleman, in full: "I should be heartily ashamed of myself for not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of your kind note and the enclosed amazing verses, if I had not the excuse of constant occupation to offer you. Even so armed I feel a little sheepish. H. Jones is a wonderful creature, and I feel truly obliged to you for your introduction to him for I have had more than one good laugh over his wonderful account of himself." He adds a noteworthy postscript: "What a pity you can't shut him up in one of the imperfectly filled cases in the Birmingham Shakespeare collection." Loosely bound in soft leather wrappers. In fine condition. Dickens is likely referring to the collection of ’Our Shakespeare Club,’ co-founded in 1861 by George Dawson, who desired to establish in Birmingham a Shakespeare Library containing 'every edition and every translation of Shakespeare; all the commentators, good, bad and indifferent; in short, every book connected with the life or works of our great poet.’ The club's collection ultimately became what is now the ‘Shakespeare Memorial Room’ on the top floor of the Library of Birmingham.
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