BIB_ID
196171
Accession number
MA 14023
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
Liverpool, England, 1862 January 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written to "My Dearest Georgy."
Written on black-edged mourning stationery with printed letterhead reading, "Gads Hill Place, / Higham by Rochester, Kent"; with the place of writing, "Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool", written above.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery with printed letterhead reading, "Gads Hill Place, / Higham by Rochester, Kent"; with the place of writing, "Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool", written above.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Giving a brief account of a reading he had given the previous evening (at the St. George's Hall in Liverpool); praising the beauty of the room in which he read and expressing his satisfaction with his audience; complaining about a "detestable" shirt button she had put at the throat of his collared shirts; enclosing a letter he received from "Helen" (probably Georgina's sister, Helen Hogarth), "from which it would appear that my unfortunate mother has everything the matter with her that she can reasonably have", and complaining that he slept poorly the night before.
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