^Lot 440 Charles Dickens

ALS, one page, 3.75 x 5, Office of All the Year Around letterhead, September 25, 1860. Letter to Horace Mayhew. In full: “Immediately upon receipt of your letter, I bestirred myself to get the required documents. Both are enclosed herein. You will observe in the abstract from the Chatham register that poor Alfred having been born before the general registration days was not so elaborately ticketed and labeled as the infants of this generation.” In very good condition, with irregularly trimmed bottom edge and lower left corner, central horizontal and vertical fold, a few slight brushes and mirroring to ink, and some scattered toning.