BIB_ID
289691
Accession number
MA 94.72
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Oct. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Dickens to his contemporaries. Items in the collection are described separately. See MA 94 for more information.
Summary
Expressing his distress at her sudden withdrawal from his theatrical production and acknowledging the "sad cause of her absence" [the death of a friend]; mentioning that [Edward] Bulwer Lytton is sorry that he will not be able to meet her and work with her; saying he is working to fill her part; sending "kindest remembrances" from his wife [Catherine Dickens] and Bridget [Georgina Hogarth].
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