Charles Dickens 1847 Handwritten and Signed Letter Coins and visible even from the

and visible even from the front

A fine unmounted mint pristine example with full original gum

Convention State issues were valid for postal use throughout British India

The 15c and 20c blocks are especially elusive

Charles Dickens 1847 Handwritten and Signed Letter Coins and visible even from theA Charles Dickens 1847 handwritten and signed letter addressed to prominent Reading bookseller George Lovejoy (1808 1883), declining an invitation. Sent on 26 June, 1847 from Dickens' London club, the Athenaeum. Dickens was in the midst of writing Dombey and Son when he sent this letter. Dickens writes that: "I have delayed answering your kind invitation in the hope that I could so arrange my engagements to have the pleasure and honour of accepting