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AUTHORS & ARTISTS] DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph note signed ("Charles Dickens") to Madame Celesté, London, 4 January 1860. One 8vo sheet of engraved "TaVistock House" letterhead folded to make four pages; text covering one page; folded for mailing; lightly soiled, not affecting text . Dickens jots a quick greeting to Madame Celesté, the French dancer and actress: "...I will call on you at the Theatre, this afternoon at half past two..." -- CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. Autograph letter signed ("G. Cruikshank") to "Dear Friend," [London], 2 December [18]68. 8vo; one sheet folded to make four pages; text covering two pages; folded for mailing; lightly worn, browned at folds; occasionally soiled . Late in his career, Cruikshank discusses an unspecified misunderstanding with a colleague: "I have been obliged to go to Asher's yesterday + also today - and have had a meeting this am with C.B.V. and have to see Asher again on Friday...I fear, after all, there will be a lawsuit." -- PUNCH MAGAZINE. Note, in an unidentified hand, on PUNCH letterhead; [London], 5 August 1865. One sheet; 8vo; text covering recto and verso; folded for mailing . A brief note accompanying "as per request, inscribed drawing + autograph" by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) (Tenniel's drawing and autograph not present) . Tenniel, cartoonist for Punch from 1850-1901, was noted for his illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. -- CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON. Autograph letter signed ("G.W.Cable") to Mr. Jefferson [probably Joseph Jefferson 1829-1905, American actor and president of the Player's Club]. Northampton, Mass., 23 July 1889. One page, 8vo; folded for mailing; text on recto only; top edge of verso reinforced with paper strip, roughly 1½in. wide, bearing remants of previous glueing . A brief communication in which cable requests guidance: "I have word from Mr. Gilder that I may send you 'Bonaventure.' I am thinking of dramatizing it, and wish you would be so good as to tell me bluntly whether you think such an effort would be wise..." -- SUE, EUGÈNE. Autograph note signed ("E.Sue") to an unidentified correspondent. [Paris, 1845.] One sheet, 8vo, of Sue's embossed, monogrammed stationery; folded to make four pages, text, entirely in French, on verso only; address in Sue's hand on the facing "page"; postmarked (however postmark and address only faintly legible); folded again for mailing; large chip to lower left corner of last "page" beneath recipient's address, not affecting text; remnant of sealing wax just above; lightly darkened . The novelist requests a meeting with an unidentified colleague -- And 3 other miscellaneous ALS's, V.P., v.d. (8)