DICKENS, CHARLES. PORTION OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO AN UNNAMED RECIPIENT, DISCUSSING A GET-TOGETHER ON BEHALF OF THE COMPOSER JOHN PYKE HULLAH. NP, ND. ONE PAGE, SMALL 8VO, ON BLUE STATIONARY; MATTED AND FRAMED. "SIR A DESIRE HAS BEEN MANIFESTED IN SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL QUARTERS, TO RENDER SOME PUBLIC SERVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO MR. HULLAH, AT THE PRESENT VERY TRYING PERIOD OF HIS USEFUL CAREER..." DICKENS WROTE THE WORDS TO HULLAH'S OPERA ENTITLED VILLAGE COQUETTES, WHICH WAS PRODUCED AT THE ST. JAMES'S IN 1836.