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Autograph letter signed "Joe" : Dover, to Mary Boyle, 1852 July 22.

BIB_ID
289712
Accession number
MA 94.77
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1852 July 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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 10 Camden Crescent.
Summary
Returning a letter he tells her he "appreciated"; reporting that he is going to perform Used Up at Manchester; implying that the performance will not be the same with someone other than Boyle in the role of Mary; discussing Dover; telling her, "I am not quite sure that I ever did like, or ever shall like, anything quite so well as Copperfield. But I foresee (I think) some very good things in Bleak House"; mentioning [Benjamin] Disraeli.