£7500 FOR DICKENS M.S. AT AUCTION.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 18, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. A section of the manuscript of “Pickwick Papers’’ was auctioned at Soth eby’s for £7500. It describes the midnight meeting of Arabella Allen with Pickwick and Winkle at Clifton Dow.i. Tt was bought after a struggle in which Dr Rosenbach, the American millionaire collector, was successful.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18640, 18 December 1928, Page 10
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