Ink signature, "Charles Dickens, Sixth October, 1858,” on an off-white 4.75 x 1 sheet, the lower right of which bears collector's notations placing the signature to Perth, Scotland. Double-matted with a portrait to an overall size of 9.75 x 13.75. In fine condition.
Perth was one of the stops of Dickens’ 1858 Scottish tour, which also involved public readings in Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Glasgow. The net profit to Dickens of his English Tour had been upwards of 300 pounds a week, but this was nothing to the success in Scotland, where his profit in a week, with all expenses paid, was 500 pounds. Speaking of his last 1858 Edinburgh reading, Dickens wrote: ‘…the people had to be got in through such a crowd as rendered it a work of the utmost difficulty to keep an alley into the room. They were seated about me on the platform, put into the doorway of the waiting-room, squeezed into every conceivable place, and a multitude turned away once more. I think I am better pleased with what was done in Edinburgh than with what has been done anywhere, almost.’
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