BIB_ID
289410
Accession number
MA 93.35
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 June 24.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 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.
The Lighthouse was performed at Tavistock House for four consecutive nights, 16-19 June 1855, for single performance on 10 July at Campden House, Kensington, which aided the Bournemouth Sanatorium for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest (a branch of the Consumption Hospital, Brompton).
The ticket sent was probably for a talk by Dickens at Drury Lane Theatre, on Wednesday, 27 June 1855.
Written from Tavistock House. Signed CD.
The Lighthouse was performed at Tavistock House for four consecutive nights, 16-19 June 1855, for single performance on 10 July at Campden House, Kensington, which aided the Bournemouth Sanatorium for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest (a branch of the Consumption Hospital, Brompton).
The ticket sent was probably for a talk by Dickens at Drury Lane Theatre, on Wednesday, 27 June 1855.
Written from Tavistock House. Signed CD.
Summary
Sending him a ticket , and discussing the proposed performance [of The Lighthouse] at Campden House, Kensington.
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