BIB_ID
289810
Accession number
MA 109.7
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1848 July 27.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dickens had paid Webster £50 on 1 May for the original of his frontispiece to the Cheap Edition of Nicholas Nickleby ("Dotheboys Hall: The Brimstone and Treacle Scene"). The 12 guineas were presumably Chapman & Hall's share for their use of it in the Edition.--Cf. Storey, p. 377, n. 4.
Part of a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents of Charles Dickens. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed Charles Dickens.
Part of a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents of Charles Dickens. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed Charles Dickens.
Summary
Asking Chapman to forward the half yearly accounts [for the Cheap Edition of January-June 1848] to Dickens at Broadstairs. Also asking Chapman to deposit 12 guineas into Dickens' account at Coutts & Co. and to "charge it against the Nickleby as paid to Mr. [Thomas] Webster."
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