BIB_ID
289420
Accession number
MA 93.39
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 Oct. 14[-19].
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 1/3 p.) ; 21.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Final 1/3 page written on interior of the envelope, probably on 19 October.
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 Hotel des Bains, Boulogne. Signed Charles Dickens. Envelope with stamps and postmarks (19 Oct. 1855) and addressed to "L'Angleterre. / W. Wilkie Collins Esquire / 17 Hanover Terrace / Regents Park / London."
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 Hotel des Bains, Boulogne. Signed Charles Dickens. Envelope with stamps and postmarks (19 Oct. 1855) and addressed to "L'Angleterre. / W. Wilkie Collins Esquire / 17 Hanover Terrace / Regents Park / London."
Summary
Describing their journey and search for lodgings. Mentioning the Christmas number of Household Words, noting that "The Ostler shall be [Collins']." Proposing to dine together at the office of Household Words on 13 November. With a postscript giving a new address in Paris.
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