BIB_ID
289350
Accession number
MA 93.16
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1854 July 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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.
Written from Villa du Camp de droite, Boulogne. Signed CD.
Written from Villa du Camp de droite, Boulogne. Signed CD.
Summary
Praising the house he has let as "amazing" and proposing that Collins return with him after Dickens briefly visits London the following week. Mentioning his appointment to sit for the painter E.M. Ward. Further describing the house in Boulogne and mentioning Napoleon III.
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