Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to Samuel Joseph, 1848 July 8.

BIB_ID
289477
Accession number
MA 94.20
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1848 July 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Dickens to his contemporaries. Items in the collection are described separately. See MA 94 for more information.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Telling him he has "not the least idea ... of the probability or improbability of your finding a purchaser for my bust"; confessing that he "covet[s] so beautiful a work of art" but is "not rich enough, just now, to secure it."