BIB_ID
107338
Accession number
MA 1384
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 May 25.
Credit line
Purchased, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Written from "Tavistock House / Twenty Fifth May 1852."
Envelope with postmark and Dickens' signature to "Mrs Morson / Urania Cottage / Near The White Horse / Shepherd's Bush."
Envelope with postmark and Dickens' signature to "Mrs Morson / Urania Cottage / Near The White Horse / Shepherd's Bush."
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Robert Kerr Black, List 24.
Summary
Providing instructions for meeting a new inmate, a young woman named Sarah Youngman, at the Westminster Police Court; saying "...I ought to mention that she is merely recommended by the magistrate as a distressed dress Maker. She has never committed any offence, and her character is considered irreproachable. I tell you so much, in justice to the girl."
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