Dickens strolls in at £45,000
Bid to £45,000 at Sotheby’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) was an extensively revised and corrected autograph draft of what was to become Charles Dickens’ tale of ‘Mrs Gamp with the Strolling Players’.
A jeu d’esprit in the voice of Martin Chuzzlewit’s drunken nurse, it had been written to raise £10…