BIB_ID
289753
Accession number
MA 94.89
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1861 Nov. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 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 on mourning stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Written on mourning stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Summary
Telling her that he is "perfectly enraptured" with the quilt she sent him; mentioning readings of Nicholas Nickleby, The Pickwick Papers, and David Copperfield; noting that Georgina Hogarth told him Mary was not in good spirits; expressing his hope that she is now "more [her]self."
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