BIB_ID
290556
Accession number
MA 107.6
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1841 Jan. 6].
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Letter is dated in House, p. 180.
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 Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
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 Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Summary
Regretting that he missed Macready's call, and asking whether he intends to visit Elliotson on Friday. Referencing the death of Nell and his completion of chapter 70 of The Old Curiosity Shop, stating "I am slowly murdering that poor child, and grow wretched over it. It wrings my heart. Yet it must be."
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