Charles Evans and Archibald Michie - letters from Charles Dickens, 1848, 1865

19 May 1848;  Autograph letter signed to Charles Evans written from Regent's Park, London, requesting his help in arranging for performances in Birmingham by the amateur theatrical company of which Dickens was manager, such performances to be in aid of the fund for the curatorship of Shakespeare House.
19 November 1865;  Autograph letter signed to Archibald Michie, [lawyer and politician of Melbourne] written from Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, thanking him for his interest in his son Alfred and also for his invitation to visit Australia. Dickens also refers to Richard Hengist Horne, a contemporary author who spent 17 years in Australia, and gives an amusing account of his invention of a giant corkscrew to extract gold from the diggings.

Charles Evans and Archibald Michie - letters from Charles Dickens, 1848, 1865

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