BIB_ID
127031
Accession number
MA 1202.1
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1868 Nov. 4.
Credit line
Purchased, 1944.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
One of two letters accompanying the autograph manuscript of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend. Letters are cataloged individually (MA 1202.1-2); see related records for full description.
With stamp and postmarks and addressed to "George W. Childs Esquire / Longham Hotel / Regent Street / London / W."
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens."
With stamp and postmarks and addressed to "George W. Childs Esquire / Longham Hotel / Regent Street / London / W."
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased from the Drexel Institute Sale, New York, October 17, 1944 (Cat. no. 67).
Summary
Welcoming him to England, and proposing to meet in London the following Monday.
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