BIB_ID
289306
Accession number
MA 91.19
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1864 Nov. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters, notes, and an engraving related to Our Mutual Friend. Items in the collection are described in 32 individual records (MA 91.1-32).
Written on stationery with "Office of All the Year Round, a weekly journal conducted by Charles Dickens" printed at the top.
Written on stationery with "Office of All the Year Round, a weekly journal conducted by Charles Dickens" printed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Returning drawings for Our Mutual Friend to Stone with comments; saying he would like "John's false beard and whiskers in the leaving-shop to be more ragged and shaggy"; giving him the lettering for the illustrations; telling him to "proceed with No. X" without him.
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