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CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) & WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH (1805-1882) A 3pp. a.l.s. by William Harrison Ainsworth, dated Kensal Lodge, Harrow Road, London, December 8th 1838, to Miss Harding, school mistress to his daughters, arranging a meeting with Dickens: "My friend Dickens will accompany me to Manchester at, or about Christmas, and means to do himself the pleasure of calling upon you ... Were you aware that one of the party (Mr. Brown) was the Phiz of Pickwick & Nicholas Nickleby?... I enclose a note from Mr. Dickens which may do for an autograph for the present;" together with the note, a 1p. a.l.s. by Charles Dickens dated Furnivas, Thursday Morning, to Ainsworth: "I have been looking anxiously forward to receiving your paper, and not seeing it venture on this slight refresher," laid down in an oblong album containing approximately 45 clipped signatures, including an envelope front signed by George Cruickshank and a 3pp. a.l.s. by Leigh Hunt to Ainsworth, describing him as a man: "who in knowing the prose of 'the town,' has not ceased to feel that the poetry of the universe is a thing somewhat larger."