Word: dombey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is one case of Dickens Items, a complete set of five famous Christmas books in beautiful condition, the parts of "Our Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman...
...Anne, one of the most natural and joyful little imps that was over ponned one that may be ranked with Dickens' or Kipling's tots. And at his death Miss Hartley touches a pitch of pothoa in a few words that Dickens, in reciting the death of Paul Dombey did not equal in as many pages...