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DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph quotation signed, the final line of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, "Wednesday 27th April, 1870." 1 page, 8vo, headed paper "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent."
"'AND SO, AS TINY TIM OBSERVED, GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE!' CHARLES DICKENS"
Dickens wrote out and signed the immortal concluding sentence from his classic A Christmas Carol only three days before his last public appearance and just six weeks before his death on 9 June 1870. In A Christmas Carol "Dickens...so artfully expressed the unique blend of nostalgia, joy, and hope which gives the Christmas season its special meaning, that some would give him credit for inventing the holiday" (Pierpont Morgan Library, In August Company, New York, 1993, 132 note).
"'AND SO, AS TINY TIM OBSERVED, GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE!' CHARLES DICKENS"
Dickens wrote out and signed the immortal concluding sentence from his classic A Christmas Carol only three days before his last public appearance and just six weeks before his death on 9 June 1870. In A Christmas Carol "Dickens...so artfully expressed the unique blend of nostalgia, joy, and hope which gives the Christmas season its special meaning, that some would give him credit for inventing the holiday" (Pierpont Morgan Library, In August Company, New York, 1993, 132 note).