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ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Gad's Hill Place letterhead, October 7, 1867. Handwritten letter to John Forster, Dickens's friend and biographer, in full: “I have been very much interested and gratified by that pleasant Passage from Mr. Bigelow's letter concerning me. As you say you are going to write to him, pray tell him as much, and I assure him that I shall hope to become his friend on the other side of the Atlantic.” Mounted, cloth-matted, and framed with an engraved portrait of Charles Dickens to an overall size of 20 x 17.5. In fine condition.
The referenced “Mr. Bigelow” refers to John Bigelow (1817–1911), an American lawyer, diplomat, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript. He played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895 and served as the first president of the New York Law School Board of Trustees.
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