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Autograph letter signed : "The Hermitage, Highgate Rise" [near London], to Catherine Dickens, [between 1852 and 1857] Jan. 16.

BIB_ID
101574
Accession number
MA 104.52
Creator
Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888.
Display Date
[between 1852 and 1857] Jan. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Mary Howitt lived at The Hermitage from ca. 1852 to 1857.
Part of a large collection of letters related to Charles and Catherine Dickens. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 104 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Mentioning that her husband ran into Charles Dickens; praising the Dickens' children.