BIB_ID
107120
Accession number
MA 22745
Creator
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789-1864.
Display Date
London, England, between 1829 and 1846?.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20 x 12.2 cm
Notes
The letter is dated only "Thursday." It was probably written by Dilke to a prospective contributor during his time as editor of The Athenaeum (1829-1846).
Written from "9 Low[e]r Grosvenor Place."
There is a note in pencil on the letter questioning the attribution to Dilke.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Written from "9 Low[e]r Grosvenor Place."
There is a note in pencil on the letter questioning the attribution to Dilke.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Thanking his correspondent for sending a ballad to The Athenaeum; writing that he had hoped to thank him in a person at the home of mutual friends, but since he has not had the opportunity, he writes to assure him that he is "very sensible of the kindness & of the value of your contribution."
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