BIB_ID
289496
Accession number
MA 93.64
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 Feb. 5.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 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.
Written from Tavistock House. Signed CD.
Written from Tavistock House. Signed CD.
Summary
Inviting Collins to dine and relating a conversation that Dickens had with [Lieut.-Col. Sir William Plunkett] De Bathe about future performances of The Frozen Deep, noting that De Bathe mentioned that the Queen "has a strong idea of following it up with some of the Crimean Amateur Performances," but that Dickens only responded by saying that he knew nothing about it.
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