BIB_ID
289990
Accession number
MA 104.13
Creator
Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872.
Display Date
1863 Oct. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters related to Charles and Catherine Dickens. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 104 for more information.
Written on mourning stationery.
Written on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Telling him of the death of his only son; saying that he could not reach Florence in time to see him alive and the blow of his death "nearly killed my poor wife"; discussing the sale of the copyright of one of his stories.
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