BIB_ID
289524
Accession number
MA 93.76
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 Aug. 29.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
House suggests that Dickens' reference to his blankness and misery may be the first sign of his infatuation with Ellen and Maria Ternan.--Cf. House, p. 423, n. 3.
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.
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.
Summary
Proposing that he and Collins go on a trip to work together, noting that "we want something for Household Words, and [Dickens] want[s] to escape from [him]self." Noting that Dickens' "blankness is inconceivable -- indescribable -- [his] misery, amazing."
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