They withdrew from auction in the UK two letters – purportedly written by Charles Dickens in the 1850s – as academic Leon Litvak labeled them as forgeries.
“The handwriting is wrong. Signature is always the point. I have letters from the same period that will confirm that these are forgeries,” the specialist analyst of Dickens’ letters and manuscripts told the Guardian. He even expressed his surprise that the two letters would sell for £800. “A letter to Dickens’ young mistress should fetch much more,” he said.
The letters dated 29 March 1855 and 13 November 1858 were addressed to his beloved Charles Dickens in his younger years, Maria Bednell and her husband, Henry Louis Winter.
Litvak, associate professor of Victorian studies at Queen’s University Belfast, has curated exhibitions of Dickens at major institutions and is consulted by auction houses about the authenticity of manuscripts sent to them.
Source: News Beast
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