Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to Charles Dickens, 1842 Nov. 8.

BIB_ID
125355
Accession number
MA 104.3
Creator
Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Comte d', 1801-1852.
Display Date
1842 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters to Charles and Catherine Dickens. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 104 for more information.
Written from Gore House, Lady Blessington's London residence.
Written in response to a letter Dickens sent him on Nov. 7; see Madeline House, Graham Storey, and Kathleen Tillotson, eds., The Letters of Charles Dickens (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974), v. 3, p. 361.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Accepting an invitation to dine with him.