BIB_ID
239773
Accession number
MA 1644
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Place not specified, date unknown.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
A name, possibly "Mrs. Dickens," is obliterated and another name may have been written below and erased; the word "he" has been changed to "she."
The salutation may read "My dear Wilkie," and the recipient has been previously identified as possibly Wilkie Collins.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery and signed "CD," but the authorship of the letter is in question.
The salutation may read "My dear Wilkie," and the recipient has been previously identified as possibly Wilkie Collins.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery and signed "CD," but the authorship of the letter is in question.
Provenance
Gift of DeCoursey Fales in 1955.
Summary
Saying "by all means come," and giving train information. Noting that [Mrs. Dickens?] may be detained in town, but that she intends to "get down first thing," and that "we will all look after you till she comes."
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