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Letter to Thomas Beard
Letter to Thomas Beard, 31 March 1843. A90.
Horse Attack
Letter to Lord Robertson, 6 May 1847. A933.
Purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, the Friends of the National Library and the Dickens Fellowship
The Eagle and the Raven
Letter to Edwin Landseer, 23 July 1845. A241.
Pets in Verse
Printed poem, ‘To Miss Dickens’ Pomeranian, Mrs Bouncer’ by Percy Fitzgerald. NN575.
Out for a Drive
Copy of an image of Dickens and his family at Gad’s Hill Place by Robert Hindry Mason, 1860s.
A Horse Called Duke
Wooden name plate for Dickens’s horse, Duke, c. 1850s. DH1101.
Dickens and Turk
Carte de visite of Dickens and Turk by Robert Hindry Mason, c.1860s. DH707.b.
Edwin Landseer's Boxer
‘The Cricket on the Hearth’, 1858. [lib] 2630.
Bull's-eye Escapes
‘Sikes attempting to destroy his dog’, ‘Oliver Twist’, 1838. [Lib] 2319.3
A Scene of Domessticity
Letter to George Cruikshank, January 1838. A364.
Lady Jane
‘Mr Krook and his cat’ by Harry Furniss from ‘Bleak House’, 1910. [Lib] 1044.11.
Firm Friends
Pen and ink sketch of ‘Barnaby Rudge and Grip the Raven’ by Fred Barnard, c.1885. DH384.15.
Grip and his family
The Children of Charles Dickens and Grip the raven by Daniel Maclise, Pencil and wash drawing, 1841. DH743.