Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-17 | Page 3 | $27,500 Paid for 5 Pages of Dickens' Manuscript

Paid I F for r 5 S Pages of Dickens' Dickens iff Manuscript I LOND LONDON N Dec 17 AP p P-AfLer P After L d. a strong bidding duel between n rep rep- of Dr Philip H. H Ros Rosenbach Rosen Rosen- n- n bach pach an and Gabriel Wells n noted te book bool collectors at auction u rooms today Dr Rosenbach h ob obtained obtained oh- oh tamed pages of ot the tho original manuscript of Papers by Dickens for poun pounds s or approximately approxImatelY approximately The manuscript containing lines deals with th the midnight meet meeting in ing of Arabella Allen with Mr Pickwick and Mr Winkle in the garden Experts explain that nothing pleased Dickens more more than to give giveaway giveaway giveaway away to his friends portions of his original manuscripts That accounts for a work like Pickwick being di dl di- vided It Is believed that about a twentieth part of the original manuscript manuscript manu manu- script 1 i is in existence