BIB_ID
289370
Accession number
MA 93.26
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 Mar. 4.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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 Tavistock House. Signed CD.
Written from Tavistock House. Signed CD.
Summary
Deriding a performance of Antony and Cleopatra [at Sadler's Wells Theatre]. Inviting himself to Collins' house on Thursday or Friday at eight o'clock for "one glass of gin and hot water" so that he may "inspect the Hospital" [i.e., Collins' sick room].
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