Infelicia (1868 Philadelphia edition) (Q2092)

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Poems by Adah Isaacs Menken
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Infelicia (1868 Philadelphia edition)
Poems by Adah Isaacs Menken

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    INFELICIA | BY | ADAH ISAACS MENKEN. | 1868. | PHILADELPHIA. | NEW YORK. | BOSTON.
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    PHILADELPHIA. | J.B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. | 1868.
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    Copy of handwritten note by Charles Dickens accepting author's dedication
    Transcription: Gad's Hill Place, | Higham by Rochester, Kent. | Monday [?] first October 1847 | Dear Miss Menken | I shall have great pleasure | in accepting your Dedication, and | I thank you for your portrait as a | highly remarkable specimen of | Photography.
    I also thank you for the verses | enclosed in your note. Many such | [?] | come [?], but few so | [?] written, and fewer still so [?] [?] sent. | Faithfully yours | Charles Dickens [signature, Dickens underlined several times]
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    TO CHARLES DICKENS
    "Leaves pallid and sombre and ruddy, | Dead fruits of the fugitive years; | Some stained as with wine and made bloody, | And some as with tears."
    excerpt from 'Dedication,' a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    [10], 7-124, [6] leaves
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