BIB_ID
108471
Accession number
MA 112.1-78
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1847 Jan. 2-1870 Jan. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 box (78 items), unbound ; size varies
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co, 1894.
Summary
A collection of 77 letters from Charles Dickens to his sister Letitia, the bulk of them written after her husband's death in 1861 when Dickens was helping to settle her husband's estate. Also includes an autograph manuscript of an article (Reflections of a Lord Mayor) Dickens wrote for Household Words in 1854. Items in the collection are described individually (MA 112.1-78).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.8 cm)
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