Charles Dickens handwritten signed David Copperfield quotationA highly rare handwritten passage from Charles Dickens' masterpiece. A signed, handwritten quotation by author Charles Dickens (1812 1870), the greatest English novelist of the Victorian age. Dated January 24, 1859. The manuscript features the final sentence from the first chapter of David Copperfield, one of Dickens' most celebrated and autobiographical works. It reads in full: "No, I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey