BIB_ID
289715
Accession number
MA 94.79
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 Jan 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 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 Tavistock House.
Written from Tavistock House.
Summary
Thanking her for her letter; saying he cannot write a long letter at this time because he is "getting up a gorgeous Fairy play for the Postboys [his children] on Charley's birthday"; mentioning that he just gave a reading of A Christmas Carol in Yorkshire and would "have lost [his] heart to the beautiful young landlady of [his] hotel ... if it had not been safe in your [Mary's] possession."
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