BIB_ID
107754
Accession number
MA 470.59
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1863 May 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield and others. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery printed "Gad's Hill Place, / Higham by Rochester, Kent."
Written on stationery printed "Gad's Hill Place, / Higham by Rochester, Kent."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Thanking him for his kindness and referencing his attempt to place a boy with the Bishop of Natal. Mentioning his own sons and wondering "Why did the Kings in the Fairy-Tales want children!" Noting that he has been working on reading from Nicholas Nickleby, comparing it to David Copperfield and remarking that it has taken him a long time to find pleasure in reading it, but that he has persisted since the audiences seem to take to it. Mentioning that he has also been working on reading the murder scenes from Oliver Twist, but that he has "got something so horrible out of it that I am afraid to try it in public."
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