BIB_ID
289541
Accession number
MA 93.85
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1858 Aug. 11.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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.
Postscript is perhaps a reference to a dramatic version of what would become A Tale of Two Cities.--Cf. House, p. 624, n. 1.
Written from Swan Hotel, Worcester. Signed CD.
Postscript is perhaps a reference to a dramatic version of what would become A Tale of Two Cities.--Cf. House, p. 624, n. 1.
Written from Swan Hotel, Worcester. Signed CD.
Summary
Discussing his tour of readings, noting that he has done "exceedingly well" and that the audiences at Exeter were "the best [Dickens has] ever seen." Sending kind regards from Arthur Smith. With a postscript noting that Dickens misses Richard Wardour's dress and that he would "rather, by a great deal, act."
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