BIB_ID
290466
Accession number
MA 105.58
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1840 July 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 1/2 p.) ; 18.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mr. J. A. Overs / Messers. Springweiler & Co. / 2 Duke Street / West Smithfield."
Part of a collection of 2 engravings and 73 letters primarily from Charles Dickens to John Macrone. Letters are cataloged individually in 75 records (MA 105.1-75); see related records for full description.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed Charles Dickens.
Part of a collection of 2 engravings and 73 letters primarily from Charles Dickens to John Macrone. Letters are cataloged individually in 75 records (MA 105.1-75); see related records for full description.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed Charles Dickens.
Summary
Mentioning that "Frazer's [sic] flourish about payment was meant" for Dickens' eye, and suggesting that Overs write to Fraser [of Fraser's Magazine] again. Thanking Overs for his account of the Moral World, but noting that Dickens "cannot make up [his] mind whether [he] shall pursue the subject."
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