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Affidavit of Charles Dickens : London, [to William Macready] : autograph manuscript signed, 1842 July 7.

BIB_ID
105923
Accession number
MA 109.22
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1842 July 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Originally cataloged as for Catherine Macready; however, both the tone of the letter and Macready's diary entry for 9 July, "A very amusing letter from Dickens" (Diaries, II, p. 179), point to him, not his wife, as recipient.--Cf. Storey, p. 260.
Part of a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents of Charles Dickens. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Signed by Charles Dickens and John Pirie, Mayor.
Summary
Praising Broadstairs and disparaging Eastbourne, calling it an "English Saint Helena, to which stern husbands banish their unwilling and reluctant wives." Describing in hyperbolic tones Catherine Macready's despair at being lodged there the previous summer.