BIB_ID
289812
Accession number
MA 109.8
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1848 Sept. 10.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
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Part of a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents of Charles Dickens. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Written from Broadstairs, Kent, on mourning paper. Signed Charles Dickens.
Written from Broadstairs, Kent, on mourning paper. Signed Charles Dickens.
Summary
Acknowledging the receipt of the half yearly accounts [for the Cheap Edition], lamenting the times, which are "very much against [them]," and approving that "the preposterous mistake of overprinting" has been "set right." Inquiring after the sale of Nicholas Nickleby, which is not mentioned in the accounts Dickens just received.
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