BIB_ID
289751
Accession number
MA 94.88
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1860 Dec. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.2 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.
Written on stationery with "Office of All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens" printed at the top.
Written on stationery with "Office of All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens" printed at the top.
Summary
Thanking her for a cigar case she sent him; telling her that he is "not quite well, and [is] being doctored"; asking her to read Great Expectations; describing a pantomime he attended at Covent Garden during which the set collapsed; mentioning that they had a fire; describing "poor actors" who "waylay [him] in Bow Street" to ask for money.
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