BIB_ID
290505
Accession number
MA 105.69
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1858 Nov. 8.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Frederick Dickens was alleged to have committed adultery in April, 1857, at Dorking.
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 on Tavistock House stationery. 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 on Tavistock House stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Summary
Noting that on the receipt of Thompson's "second letter" concerning Frederick and Anna Dickens estrangement [written in response to Dickens' letter of 27 Oct., MA 105.68], Dickens wrote to his brother Frederick and they had an appointment during which they discussed "the Dorking affair." Describing the appointment, noting that although Dickens "advised him with the greatest emphasis" to settle at least an allowance on his wife, he has not the "faintest reason to suppose that he attached a feather's weight to anything" Dickens said.
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