BIB_ID
290510
Accession number
MA 105.71
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1858 Dec. 27.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
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."
Written on Tavistock House stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Summary
Noting that he has not abandoned the subject [of Frederick and Anna Dickens' estrangement and separation], but that he has not communicated with Thompson because he has not seen Frederick, though he has "been waiting from day to day to see [him]." Enclosing (not present) a note Dickens received on the morning of the 27th from Frederick [evidently refusing mediation], and asking Thompson to "judge what it is possible to do, under such circumstances."
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