BIB_ID
289703
Accession number
MA 94.75
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Feb. 21.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Telling her that he has edited her story and tried to give it "compactness"; saying he hopes she will not be alarmed by his "use of the pruning-knife"; telling her he renamed her story "My Mahogany Friend"; attempting to dissuade her from being a writer and entering on "that thorny track where the prizes are so few, and the blanks so many"; mentioning "the first shadows of a new story hovering in a ghostly way" about him [his first mention of Bleak House].
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