BIB_ID
289354
Accession number
MA 93.17
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1854 Sept. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 1/4 p.) ; 17.9 cm + envelope
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 Boulogne. Signed CD. Envelope (on mourning stationery) with postmark addressed to "Angleterre / W. Wilkie Collins Esquire / 17 Hanover Terrace / Regents Park / London." Final 1/4 page of letter written on the envelope interior.
Written from Boulogne. Signed CD. Envelope (on mourning stationery) with postmark addressed to "Angleterre / W. Wilkie Collins Esquire / 17 Hanover Terrace / Regents Park / London." Final 1/4 page of letter written on the envelope interior.
Summary
Mentioning [Robert] Keeley and the weather and describing his guest Vincent [Percival Cattermole]. Noting that Mary [his eldest daughter usually called Mamie] was taken very ill with English Cholera and describing her sickness. Reporting that the Theatre [in the Rue Monsigny] took fire, and mentioning mutual acquaintances, including Beaucourt [Dickens' landlord], Ellioston, "the Kernel" [Augustus Egg], Beard, and Ward. Sending kind regards.
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