BIB_ID
108470
Accession number
MA 113.1-136
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1833-1858.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
136 items ; various sizes
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Collection of 135 letters from Charles Dickens to his brother-in-law Henry Austin (MA 113.1-135); 1 letter to an unidentified recipient (MA 113.136); and 1 engraving of Charles Dickens. Letters to Austin discuss Austin's career, their work on sanitary projects, and the purchase of and renovations made to Tavistock House and Gad's Hill Place. Items are described in 136 individual records.
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