Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25
Interesting Dickens Letters
TO be Sold in London.
sour LONDON LITERARY LETTER.

Special Correspondence.
T ONDON, Feb. 15.--Some Of the most
genuinely interesting letters by
Charles Dickens In existence at
the present time viii be sold at
auction in London this month They
were written by the author Of pick
wick" to George Cattermole who Illus
trated THE Old Curiosity shop" and
"Barnaby Rudge" Cattermole was one
Of Dickens favorite illustrators as we'll
as his close friend.
The letters show what detailed sug-
gestions Dickens was In the habit OF
making regarding the pictures for his
novels, The following one, written by
Dickens TO Cattermole in 1S4l. refers TO
drawing for "Banaby Rudge.'
"Can you do for me by Saturday eve
ning-l know the time IL short, but
think the subject will suit you, and |
am greatly pressed--a party OF rioters
with Hugh and Simon Tappertt con-
spicuous among them) in old John VIII
let's bar-turning the liquor taps to
their own advantage-sm bot
tles--cutting down the grove OF lemons
sitting astride ON casks-drinking out
OF the best punchbowels-eating the
great cheese--smoking sacred pipes, Nc
&c-John Willet, fallen backward In his
chair. regarding them with a stupid
horror. and quite alone among them
with none OF the Maypole customers az
his back It's in your way, ana your
do II n hundred times better than can
suggest It TO you, ] know"
Evidently he did, for In another let
ter TO Cattermole, dated Aug, IL, Sfl
Dickens says, John Willets Bar Is mo-
BILE" Then he outlines another Bar
naby Rudge' picture, as follows
"When Hugh and small body OF the
rioters cut on from the Warren un-
beknown 10 their pals, they forced into
n ramshaokle postchaise Dolly Warden
and Emma Haredale, and bore them
away with all possible rapldity; one OF
their company driving, and the rest
running beside the chalse, climbing up
behind sitting on the top, lighting the
way with their torches, etc, etc II
YOU can express the women inside With
ont showing them--as by a fiutterng
veil delicate arm, or 80 forth, APP
nenring AT the half-closed window-so
mucb the better. Mr. Tappertit stands
ON the steps, which are partly down,
and hanging on to the window with one
hand. and extending the other with
great majesty, addresses a few words
Of encouragement to the driver and at
tendants,'
Cattermoles drawings for "The Old
Curiosity shop drew the highest sort
OF praise from Dickens.
III is Impossible for me 20 tell you
he wrote. "how greatly ! am charmed
with those beautiful pictures, In which
The whole feeling and thought and eX.
uresslon Of the little story Is rendered
10 the qualification OF my Utmost heart
and on which you have lavlshed those
amazing resources OF yours WIN
power al which fairly wondered when
+ sat down yesterday before them. |
took them 10 Mac straightway In
cab-and II would have done you good
II you could have seen and heard them
You can't think how moved he was by
the old man In the church, or how proud
was TO have chosen II before ne saw
the drawings. vow are such q queer
fellow, and hoh yourself so much aloof
that | am afraid TO say half j would
say touching my grateful admiration
So YOU shall imagine the rest
These Dickens letters are part OF
valuable collection Of literary aud
musical relies made by the late Julian
Marshall. II includes one letter by
Matthew Arnold and two by Robert
Browning not TO mention manuscripts
by Handel Bach Haydn Donnizetti
Gounod. Spohr Gluck and Chopin. One
M the Browning letters Is addressed
10 am amateur poet who wrote asking
hts advice about publishing a volume
Of verse. One paragraph runs
at sounds strangs and almost sod TO
me that ! should be imagined " au-
thorlty IN this kind, I who for years
could not get n line printed except at
my own expense, and ] began half a
century ago on more
The sale Of those letters and manu-
scripts should not escape the atten-
ton OF American collectors.
one Of Rudyard Kipllngs fellow pas
senRera on his recent voyage to the
Cape saws OF the novelist "Kipling
made p delrhtful impression on every.
one on board. re was CHEEKY and cour-
teous. and not at all averse to CONVEX