BIB_ID
289718
Accession number
MA 94.80
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1856 Jan. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.9 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.
With a note in pencil in an unknown hand at the top of p. 1: "I think this as a whole admirable."
With a note in pencil in an unknown hand at the top of p. 1: "I think this as a whole admirable."
Summary
Apologizing for not writing sooner, and explaining that he has been spending so much time answering business correspondence that "pleasure-correspondence is just the last thing in the world [he has] had leisure to take to"; saying how sorry he was to leave Peterborough; mentioning a visit to Rockingham Castle; describing his breakfast of a "petrified bun of enormous antiquity"; complaining about the mud at this time of year; asking who taught her to write because he wants to improve his handwriting.
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