BIB_ID
290002
Accession number
MA 104.15
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Display Date
[1852 Apr. 4].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday"; the letter is in response to a letter Catherine Dickens wrote on Saturday, April 3.
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 from 4 Hertford St.
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 from 4 Hertford St.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Telling her he is honored they are naming their son [Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens] after him; noting that he will "feel a lively interest in the future [of his] God child"; saying he is going to Hertfordshire and expects to be busy there for many weeks, but he will come to the christening if he can.
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