[Charles William Shirley Brooks, editor of Punch.] Autograph Letter Signed ('C. Shirley Brooks') to 'Mrs. Lemon', presenting a copy of one of his novels ('Aspen Court'?), and describing the response of the dedicatee (Charles Dickens?).

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. In presenting a copy of his novel to her, he thinks that 'Perhaps it will not make the volumes less acceptable to you, if I mention that I have received the most gratifying letter, I think, that I ever had in my life, from a valued friend of yours to whom the book is dedicated, and who has written to say that he has felt real pleasure in reading that inscription.' The subject of the letter is almost certainly Charles Dickens, with whose family the Lemons were great friends, and to whom Lemon fulsomely dedicated his novel 'Aspen Court' (1855). The friendship between the Lemons and Dickens terminated following the latter's separation from his wife in 1858, as Lemon represented Catherine Dickens in the ensuing negotiations.