BIB_ID
107573
Accession number
MA 2787
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1856 February 19.
Credit line
Purchased, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.4 x 12.1 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written from "49 Champs Elysées / Tuesday Nineteenth February 1856."
Envelope with postmarks and Dickens' signature addressed "L'Angleterre / Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Written from "49 Champs Elysées / Tuesday Nineteenth February 1856."
Envelope with postmarks and Dickens' signature addressed "L'Angleterre / Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1969.
Summary
Giving her information about his son Walter, and describing his emotional state as he writes Little Dorrit; saying "Walter was born on 8th of February 1841. His name (a mild one) is Walter Landor. Birthday, eighth of February eighteen hundred and forty one. Name, Walter Landor. No vegetable designation, no flower, no beast, no terrors of any description [..] Your note finds me settling myself to Little Dorrit again, and in the usual wretchedness of such settlement - which is unsettlement. Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out of window, tearing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up, going out, coming in, a Monster to my family, a dread Phenomonon to myself, &c &c &c."
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