DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., `Mr Charles Dickens

DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., `Mr Charles Dickens

DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., `Mr Charles Dickens´, in the third person at the heading, one page, 8vo, Tavistock House [London], 3rd April 1854 to Lord and Lady Granville. The novelist cannot attend his correspondent´s invitation and states `Mr. Charles Dickens greatly regrets that he is so unfortunate as he is engaged on Saturday the sixth of May, otherwise he would have had much pleasure in accepting the kind invitation with which Lord and Lady Granville have honoured him.´ With blank integral leaf. Folded. Small annotation to the fourth blank page in the hand of a collector, otherwise about EX £600-900