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BRITISH AUTHORS]. DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed, London, 12 February 1846, to Charles Manby, 2 pp., 8vo , advising him on the submission of contributions to the Daily News : "...Mr. Fisher is desperate for scientific meetings, and in that capacity, had full authority to write to you..."; Autograph letter signed to Nelson Lee, London, 5 April 1858, 1 page, 8vo, on his Tavistock House letterhead, a little wrinkled, a blank corner chipped : "I will with pleasure look over your manuscript...But I am bound to add that here my power of rendering you any service will stop, for I have never known myself to [form?] the least influence with any publisher, on behalf of another person" -- WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS. Autograph letter signed to William S. Smith London, 6 January 1871, 1 1/2 pages, 8vo , requesting "that you will add my name to the List of Subscribers to 'Notes and Queries'..."; Autograph letter signed to "Dear Miss Alger," Ramsgate, 10 July 1879, 1 page, 8vo, laid down, a little chipped affecting a few letters , regarding sending a photograph of himself -- THOMAS HARDY Autograph letter signed to the literary agent [William Morris] Colles, Max Gate, Dorchester, "Thursday," n.d., 1 page, 8vo, on black-bordered mourning stationery, integral blank leaf, bound in morocco-backed cloth with the two Barrie letters to Mrs. Hardy that follow , a brief message: "Thanks for [cutting?]. But it is not of much consequence, and I shall say no more. I had answered the question about that story before you wrote" -- Sir JAMES M. BARRIE. Two autograph letters signed to Mrs. Florence Hardy, London, 12 June [1913?] and n.d., together 3 pages, 8vo , inviting the Hardys to attend one of his plays (in the first letter) and remarking (in the second letter): "...It is a rare delight to me to feel that I have you for a friend..." -- ROBERT BROWNING Autograph letter signed to Charles Gibbon, [London?] 19 January 1872, 1 page , asking for the titles of the "three [male?] poems" Gibbon wants to use -- WALTER PATER.. Autograph letter signed to "My dear Sir," London, 30 April n.y., 1 page oblong 12mo, on gilt-edged card : "I have been much occupied of late, in consequence of a domestic sorrow..." -- G.P.R. JAMES. Autograph manuscript signed of his Preface to the American edition of the novel The Fate (published by Harper Bros. in 1851), Stockbridge, Mass., 30 July 1851, 2 pages, 4to , postmarked address panel on verso of second leaf to the publishers Harper Bros. in New York, with several revisions in the manuscript, which ends: "...I will rest, then, in hope, that this work, the first that I have commenced and completed in America, may not be worse than its many literary brethren, and merely pray that it may be better. Let the Critics say, Amen!" -- And autograph letters signed (one each) by Thomas Hughes (regarding a new chapel, fold tears ), George Du Maurier (with small self-caricature in the letter), Algernon Charles Swinburne (replying to an autograph request, separated at center fold ), Matthew Arnold (brief social note), John Morley (literary), Arnold Bennett (regarding the Wounded Allies Relief Committee concert), E.V. Lucas, Hall Caine (on copyright matters, fold tears ), Alfred Austin, John Keble (1792-1866, divine and poet, a business letter concerning unruly "Tenants"), Samuel Rogers (pompous social letter, separated at folds ), Allen Cunningham, Justin McCarthy (2 cards), Charles J. Apperley ("Nimrod" writes about a saddle), Samuel Warren (an 2-page social note), George Augustus Sala (social), John Forster, and 8 others ( 4 defective ); together 36 items. (36)