BIB_ID
289373
Accession number
MA 93.27
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 Mar. 19.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Collins' "The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose" was first published in Household Words, 7 April 1855 and three subsequent weeks.
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.
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.
Summary
Praising Collins' "Sister-Rose," and offering suggestions on refining the text. Inquiring after Collins, and asking whether he shall come up to Ashford, noting that "Mark [Lemon] (whose face is at present enormous) is going." Mentioning [William Henry] Wills, Dickens' talk at the Literary Fund, and [John] Forster, and asking for [Edward Frederick Smyth] Pigott's address.
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