Another famous sale is to take place at Sotheby's next month. [1 it i2 one of the finest collections of first editions and Mss to be seen. 1 is Dr. Johnson's last book of notes which he appears to have conter-plated an essay on "Scepticism." Johnson's notes were wri October 31, 1781, He died six week: later. There is a long Dickens letter Ter Other interesting items are and. meeting
a page of the MSS of Thackeray's "Peniennis." 24 lines of Shelley's The Revolt of Islam," a set of the €laborate note books of George Eliot, a remarkable letter of Jane Austen, verses of Byron, and letters of
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