BIB_ID
289619
Accession number
MA 93.128
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1867 Aug. 23.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 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. Signed CD.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed CD.
Summary
Noting that Dickens has not yet "done the overture" [the opening chapter of No Thoroughfare], and discussing the plot of what would become "On the Mountain," noting that if they both keep his sketch in mind, they "shall get a very Avalanche of power out of it, and thunder it down on the readers' heads."
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