Hand-addressed mailing envelope panel, 4.75 x 2.75, addressed by Dickens to “Henry Cole Esquire, 1 The Terrace, High Street, Kensington,” and signed in the lower left, “Charles Dickens.” Encapsulated in a plastic PSA/DNA authentication holder. In very good to fine condition, with scattered overall soiling and a few small spots of foxing. Cole was an influential patron of the arts and sciences and is credited with introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843—the same year that Dickens’s A Christmas Carol debuted.
