Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to William Charles Macready, [1840 Feb. 23].

BIB_ID
290362
Accession number
MA 106.11
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1840 Feb. 23].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 106 for more information.
The letter is dated "Sunday morning"; the exact date is from House and Storey.
Written from 1 Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Expressing his "sense of [Macready's] most kind and friendly interest in the matter of [Richard] Bentley"; stressing that he does "not reject [Macready's] good offices from any obstinate or wrong-headed feeling, but simply because [he knows] the hopelessness of any mediation."