BIB_ID
290383
Accession number
MA 106.16
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1839 Apr. 7].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday"; the exact date is from House and Storey.
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.
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.
Summary
Joking that he will have "three dozen ... of the extraordinary champagne"; discussing Macready's retirement from Covent Garden (which Macready had decided to announce the night before); sending a cheque for £50 for H[aynes] B[ayly].
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