That were ever taken, new york 1867, the winter of 186768 which was his second final reading tour of the united states. [inaudible] how did the library get the dickens materials a . Well, the Performance Company came to the berg collection through the purchase of the greatest collections of english and American Literature in private hands in the 20th century. This was back in 194041. One was a great Book Publishing magnate from cincinnati, and a friend of the irish renaissance. A real friend of literature. He had some of his performance copies, including the other great collector who was man of the year, 1929. Founder of the general electric, rca, rather. On more i do want to mention one thing. This belonged to dickens. Here is his pen which you may want to hold. Thats his ink well. This is his ivory letter opener which was given to him by his sisterinlaw, georgina, and she had inscribed, or engraved, in gothic letters, in memory of bob, 1862. This is one of the forepaws of his cat, re
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