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Condition: Good. MS Letters. 5" x 8" & smaller, 9 pp. total, Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books.

1st separate printing. Not in Gimbel. Leaflet: 4 pages. Each ANs, 2 pages [each one sheet, writing both sides]. ANs dates: Saturday May 6 1837 [to Rev R. H. Barham], July 28 1837 [to Rev R. H. Barham], 8th July 1839. Leaflet: 7-7/8" x 5-1/8" The leaflet prints a letter from George Bently, Richard's son, to the Editor of "The Times" addressing the recently published Forster biography of Dickens, wherein the recounting of Dickens' Bentley's Miscellany editorship, and compensation therefore, was disputed by George, and laying out his father's actions, which portray Dickens as one who consistently renegotiated contracts, from one happy to have employment, to one perceiving his new 'fame' as worth more. Bentley "was a 19th-century English publisher born into a publishing family. He started a firm with his brother in 1819. Ten years later, he went into partnership with the publisher Henry Colburn. Although the business was often successful, publishing the famous 'Standard Novels' series, they ended their partnership in acrimony three years later. Bentley continued alone profitably in the 1830s and early 1840s, establishing the well-known periodical Bentley's Miscellany. However, the periodical went into decline after its editor, Charles Dickens, left." Barham "was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby and as the author of The Ingoldsby Legends", which he began contributing to Bentley's Miscellany in 1837. [Wiki] The letters are newsy in nature, occasionally alluding to Miscellany business, e.g. "I am anxious that Cruikshank should mistake the No. 6 of the Miscellany of the Family Stories. Can you favor me with it for that purpose early!" NB. While the 3rd letter has no named recipient, as it is of the same nature, we presume it too to be to the Rev. Barham. Leaflet shows age-toning & soiling, some wear, Very Good. Case & chemise: average wear, Very Good. ANs: age-toning, some signs of wear. One with horizontal fold line, split at fold [see images]. Self-wrappers, now housed in a custom red cloth chemise & slipcase.

One lettersheet, written on both sides, 50 lines of holograph writing, ~ 200+ words. NB. some text obscured by the matt [letter not examined out of the frame]. Color lithographed union graphic in upper left of p. 1. Not found in Milgram. Letter [visible]: 8" x 5". Frame: 12" x 9" According to the West Virginia archive website, a skirmish occured in the Romney vicinity from 1-3 November. Here in this 2 November ALs, an anonymous correspondent writes a campaign update to an 'old friend', ". write you a few lines to let you know the rebels has not been [?] Repared (?) yet but i don't know how soon they may for we are out here where they are where they had thare Camp but when when we come they run . I will try to tell you about the little fight we had. Since we left grafton we come to New [?] and then we had to take it on foot 24 miles the Rebels shot at us six miles from romney and retreated back. but we had one twelve pounder and gave them a few rounds . so many Rebels was kiled there was [?], there was but one union man kiled. Respect to Thomas Morris." Morris "was an American railroad executive and civil engineer from Kentucky and a soldier, serving as a brigadier general of the Indiana Militia in service to the Union during the early months of the American Civil War. During the Western Virginia Campaign in 1861, he played an important role in leading regiments from West Virginia, Indiana, and Ohio in clearing the Confederate army from western Virginia during the Battle of Philippi, a move that helped bolster pro-Union sentiment and contributed to the creation of the separate state of West Virginia." [Wiki]. Bit of age-toning to paper. 2 faint horizontal fold-lines. Very Good [not examined out of the frame]. Plain silver metal frame, with surrounding light-colored matt.