BIB_ID
290431
Accession number
MA 106.38
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1840 Nov. 6].
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 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 "Friday evening"; the exact date is from House, Storey, and Tillotson.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
The letter is dated "Friday evening"; the exact date is from House, Storey, and Tillotson.
Written from Devonshire Terrace.
Summary
Mentioning "some new arrangements with Chapman and Hall" and a performance of The Old Curiosity Shop; saying that he has decided "not to go tonight" [probably to one of John Elliotson's demonstrations of mesmerism] but is sending the carriage to take Macready there.
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