New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-06
AUTOGRAPHS
Dickensiana and fhackerayana
Rare Portraits.


Rare Portraits.
The Anderson Auction Company will
sell on the afternoons OF May n, Is
and II the second and concluding con-
s.gnment of autographs, manuscripts
and books from the library Of Edwin
". Coggeshall This sale is Of the
greatest Importance 10 Dickensians and
Thackerayans. II includes the largest
collection Of autograph letters Of
Charles Dickens ever offered for sale in
this country, 70 the number Of 600 and
over. Thoy begin in 1915 and run 20
the year Of the novelists death. About
800 Of these letters. addressed 20 WILL
lam Henry Wills. sub-editOr Of "H0use-
hold Words" and "All the Year Round
were published some time ago M
Charles Dickens as Editor" They will
be sold separately. Another set OF
Wills letters, l25 in number, unpuo-
lished thus far, will be sold in one lot,
az containing abundant material fo-
still another study Of Dickens. They
were written from all parts of England,
from Scotland and France. and there -
one from New York. They cover a
period Of twenty-three years, begin
ming in 1916, and show Dickens's daily
life, his literary activity, his philan-
thropies and charities, contain much
frank criticism of his contemporaries
who submitted contributions 20 ms
periodicals. and throw light on his poll
cies as editor. "'All the Year Round
he wrote, must never look at life
through disagreeable windows" lie
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nent position on Household Word,
and also wrote that, though ne had lit
tic faith in JerrOld, he was willing 10
give HIM a chance. He discussed his
family affairs with great freedom, and,
on lecture tour, wrote from New,
castle that Jennie Lind had carried
away all the money the town pos
scssed." There are references TO
Wills's rejection by the Garrick Club,
which was the cause OF the famous
quarrel with Thackeray; and elsewhere
there is a curious discussion, timely TO-
dav as ever 10 was, Of the relative posi-
ton Of the criminal and the pauper.
The latter's. Dickens held, was tho
more deplorable one.
Another set of his letters, III IN
number, was written 20 his sister-in-
law, Georgiana Hogarth. Most OF
these, too, are unpublished. In them
he discusses the theatre, his expert
ences as a public reader, critclses ms
CONTEMPORARIES and describes his tray
els. Many of these letters were writ
ten from America. Among them is one
in which he expresses the opinion that
England could shell the City Of New
York Off the face of the earth in two
days" lie also informs Miss llOgarth
that his earnings In this country ran
up 20 "a thousand pounds week.
The Yhackerayaua include a first edit
ton of"Rebecca and Rowens," with an
original drawing by the author and an
autograph letter from him 10 Richard
DOYLE. Another letter 10 the same ar
list refers 20 the illustrations for THE
Newcomcs." a first edition Of this
novel contains another letter on the
subject. 4 COPY Of Notes on a Jour
ney" first edition has "A finished pen
ell drawing by Thackeray. The hrst
edition of "Our Street. is accompanied
By a page of manuscript. Other i'm
rortant items are the complete original
MSS of "The Bumpshers.' 1.-THE Lion
of Our Street and "The Dove of our
street. and the original draft Of Jolly
Ncwboy.' a first edition Of THE -Four
Georges" contains q letter; the FIRST
editions of "Lovel the Nidower' and
"Thc Adventures Of Philip" are accom-
panied by pages of the original MSS;
the first edition Of Unpublished
Verses" contains two original draw
iugs. and a copy of the excessively
rare "Thackeray at Clevedon Court a
letter I'm which he discusses his own
work and his ability as an artist.
There are in this second Coggeshall
sale some valuable original portraits
am unpublished water color Of Dickens
bv his friend Walter Henry Watts. the
miniaturist; three-quarter length OF
Thackeray painted by Edwin ID. Smith
In the year after the completion Of
VANITY Fair; two colored crayon por-
traits Of the Brownings by loves Dick
inson; well authenticated silhouettes
Of Carlyle. Scott and Charlotte Bronte,
a full-length pencil drawing Of Dis
raeli by Maclise. and a pen-and-inN
sketch Of the coronation Of Queen Vic
toria with an autograph inscription by
Thackeray.
Two remarkable autograph letters by
Charlotte Bront6 deserve mention. In
one she discusses Thackeray and Jane
Eyre: In the other she gives a crit
cism Of George Lewes's novel, Rose,
Blanche and Violet" An antique sill
yer reliquary contains a lock of Mill
toms hair and another Of Elizabeth
Browning's The Milton relic was once
the property Of Addison, John ID. fOOle
and Samuel Johnson. Keats made it
the subject Of q poem. and it was pre-
scented TO Browning by Leigh Hunt.
Elizabeth Barrett refers to her own lock
Of hair which she gave to Browning, in
one Of her sonnets. Thus the names OF
seven great figures in English litera-
ture are combined In this one reliquary.
Hoole is best remembered a. JohnsOn's
friend and the translator Of Tasso and
AriOsto.
The collection is now on exhibition
a. the Anderson Galleries, Madison
Avenue and Fortieth Street