Printed Coutts & Company check, signed "Charles Dickens" in autograph, to George Wilson.
London: February 8, 1864.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
One leaf. One leaf, printed recto and verso, autograph text on both sides, folded once at bottom margin.
Item #346691
A printed, canceled, and endorsed Coutts & Company bank check, filled out in autograph on February 8th, 1864, and boldly signed by Dickens at bottom with a flourish, made payable to "Mr. George Wilson" in the amount of thirty-seven pounds, ten shillings. It is additionally endorsed on the verso by Wilson, who was the first Regius Professor of Technology at the University of Edinburgh and the founding Director of the what became the National Museum of Scotland. A leading advocate for a new area of biological studies which combined religion, Victorian science, emerging technologies, and Baconian philosophy, Wilson was a popular lecturer and author in the United Kingdom, praised publicly by Dickens for his educational and empirical endeavors.
