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Ebenezer Cobham Brewer was the author of several reference works, his most enduring being Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870).
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CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870); & EBENEZER COBHAM BREWER (1810-1897)
Autograph subscription, signed 'Faithfully yours Charles Dickens', from Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, dated 'Tuesday Twenty Sixth March 1867', laid down on paper with original holograph envelope addressed to Miss Jessy Jameson, 68 Harcourt Street, Dublin (envelope cropped).
With one-page autograph letter on reverse, signed 'E. Cobham Brewer', from Edwinstowe, Newark, 19 September 1888, to Mr Hunter, regarding a church service.
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Autograph subscription, signed 'Faithfully yours Charles Dickens', from Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, dated 'Tuesday Twenty Sixth March 1867', laid down on paper with original holograph envelope addressed to Miss Jessy Jameson, 68 Harcourt Street, Dublin (envelope cropped).
With one-page autograph letter on reverse, signed 'E. Cobham Brewer', from Edwinstowe, Newark, 19 September 1888, to Mr Hunter, regarding a church service.
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