BIB_ID
289277
Accession number
MA 93.2
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 May 12.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins. Letters are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
The supper referenced was given by the Duke of Devonshire (on 27 May 1851) for the actors and audience after the second performance of Edward Bulwer Lytton's play "Not so Bad as we Seem," in which Dickens played the leading role. Charles Ward was an intimate friend of Wilkie Collins.
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed Charles Dickens.
The supper referenced was given by the Duke of Devonshire (on 27 May 1851) for the actors and audience after the second performance of Edward Bulwer Lytton's play "Not so Bad as we Seem," in which Dickens played the leading role. Charles Ward was an intimate friend of Wilkie Collins.
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed Charles Dickens.
Summary
Regarding a supper to be given by the Duke [of Devonshire] and Collins' request that [Charles] Ward be invited, noting that though Dickens feels "the introduction of a stranger like [Charles Ward is] ... a kind of difficulty," he does "not like to refuse compliance with any wish of [his] faithful and attached valet [Collins]" and has sent the order.
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