BIB_ID
290550
Accession number
MA 107.4
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1839 June 7].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Letter dated in House, p. 553.
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 107 for more information.
Written from Elm Cottage, Petersham. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Part of a large collection of correspondence between Charles Dickens and William Charles Macready. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 107 for more information.
Written from Elm Cottage, Petersham. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Summary
Noting that Dickens has been "enticed by sundry dark and mysterious invitations from [Clarkson] Stanfield" and will therefore attend Macready's rehearsal [of Henry V] the following day. Mentioning that he would like to bring a friend [T. J. Thompson], and begging Macready to send him a line if he has the "smallest objection."
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