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77 - Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph envelope addressed to "Captain Morgan American Packet Ship 'Devonshire' London Docks", post date stamps on both sides, red wax seal on verso, slightly creased and soiled, 67 x 119mm., 12th July 1848.
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Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph envelope addressed to "Captain Morgan American Packet Ship 'Devonshire' London Docks", post date stamps on both sides, red wax seal on verso, slightly creased and soiled, 67 x 119mm., 12th July 1848. *** Addressed to Elisha Ely Morgan, a friend of Dickens and captain of the packet ship Devonshire. Probably Morgan was the inspiration for the protagonist, Captain Silas Jorgan in Dickens' 1860 short story, A Message from the Sea. Provenance: Accompanying envelope inscribed: "Enclosed is envelope of letter written by Charles Dickens" and in a later hand, "Above written by my father C.L.W. ?Cowper".
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