BIB_ID
289612
Accession number
MA 93.122
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1867 Feb. 12.
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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 on Gad's Hill Place stationery, with the printed heading canceled and "Office" written below. Signed CD.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery, with the printed heading canceled and "Office" written below. Signed CD.
Summary
Promising to read Charles Reade's latest book [Griffith Gaunt], referencing the charges of indecency and immorality brought against it. Mentioning his schedule of readings and noting that "the Railways shake [Dickens], as witness [his] present handwriting," and that he feels it very much "since the Staplehurst experience." Proposing to dine in two weeks unless Collins has by then left for Paris.
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