BIB_ID
289375
Accession number
MA 93.28
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 Mar. 24.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dinah Mulock's "A Ghost Story" was published in Household Words on 24 March 1855.
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 Charles Dickens.
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 Charles Dickens.
Summary
Expressing pleasure at Collins' "great improvement" and that he will be traveling to Ashford, giving specifications as to the arrangements. Discussing [Dinah Mulock] and her publication, and mentioning [Sir John Everett] Millais, and referencing his painting "The Rescue." Noting that [William Henry] Wills informed Georgina [Hogarth] that his sister is "Abnormal," from which Dickens inferrs "that Abnormal is a kind of scientific substitute for Ricketty." With a postscript noting that he dined with "an old General" [Sir Charles Pasley] "who went perfectly mad at dinner about the Times."
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