DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") to Lady Talfourd, sending condolences for the death of her husband, to whom the Pickwick Papers are dedicated. Tavistock House, 17 March 1854. 2 pages, written on recto and verso of single 8vo sheet; matted with an engraved portrait and framed with glassine window on verso. "... I have written a brief remembrance of him for the Household Words of May 1 week... It consists of only a few plain words out of my heart, but they may speak to yours..."