BIB_ID
106353
Accession number
MA 1352.607
Creator
Dickens, John, -1851.
Display Date
Exeter, England, 1842 March 24.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Alphington Exeter / 24 March 1842."
Written from "Alphington Exeter / 24 March 1842."
Provenance
The letters formed part of the Burdett-Coutts sale (Sotheby, 17 May 1922); they were purchased for Oliver W. Barrett in whose collection they remained until it was sold by his son (Parke-Bernet, 31 October 1951).
Summary
Requesting a six-month loan of £25 to meet his debts in Exeter as he prepares to return to London; claiming the necessity of the request having arisen from the haste with which his son left for America without making financial arrangements for him.
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