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Twice signed third-person ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, September 17, 1856. In full, 'Mr Charles Dickens begs to inform Mr Scholl that he spoke to Mr Scholl’s man, requesting to have an estimate for a large external lamp in the fanlight of the street door, instead of the present gas-fitting in the front hall. Not having received it, Mr Dickens thinks it may have been forgotten.' Intersecting folds, small hole at junction of folds at center, scattered soiling, toning to edges and central horizontal fold, and tape reinforcement to reverse of folds, otherwise very good condition.
Dickens here refreshes the memory of John Scholl, an engineer and gas fitter in Soho, to address the lighting situation at Tavistock House, the home of the novelist and his family from 1851 to 1860. It was at that residence that he wrote, among others, A Tale of Two Cities and Little Dorrit—with Dickens in the midst of writing the latter at the time of this letter. Dickens published Little Dorrit in nineteen monthly installments between December 1855 and June 1857. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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