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Hope through the Smoke
Dickens’s Watercolour of The Old Curiosity Shop by George Cattermole, 1840. DH98.1.
Breathing in the Fog
Letter from Charles Dickens to Helen Dickens, 16 July 1860. A892.
Purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, the Friends of the National Library and the Dickens Fellowship.
'Spitalfields' by William Henry Wills
‘Spitalfields’ by William Henry Wills with likely additions by Dickens, Household Words, Volume III, Magazine No. 54, 5 April 1851. [lib]1459.3.
Fire Poker
Dickens’s fire poker used in his dining room, c.1860s. DH270.