BIB_ID
106658
Accession number
MA 1727
Creator
Dickens, Henry F. (Henry Fielding), Sir, 1849-1933.
Display Date
London, England, 1922 March 30.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "8, Mulberry Walk, / S. W." On the lefthand side: "Tel. Kensington 6130."
Provenance
Purchased from the Frank Hollings bookshop, catalog 255, item 46.
Summary
Apologizing for not responding earlier, but explaining that he has been preoccupied with the "Trial of Hooley and others for fraud [...] the heaviest and most complicated case I have ever tried;" saying that he could not sanction publication of the letters between Charles Dickens and Angela Burdett-Coutts without looking into them further; mentioning that William Burdett-Coutts "very courteously sent three of them to me of so personal a character as to induce him to decline to allow them to be put in the sale;" discussing the advisability of publishing the correspondence in a separate volume and recommending against it; saying that if a new edition of Dickens's letters were to be published, they might be included in that, though he is not sure there is enough demand to warrant a new edition; making arrangements to meet in April.
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