BIB_ID
127616
Accession number
MA 104.61
Creator
Pollock, Jonathan Frederick, Sir, 1783-1870.
Display Date
1857 Jan. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters related to Charles and Catherine Dickens. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 104 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Explaining why he had to decline her invitation to "The Green Room Supper"; commenting on Charles Dickens as a "great author & (if possible) still greater actor"; mentioning that he lost a pair of spectacles at the dinner.
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