BIB_ID
290563
Accession number
MA 107.8
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1840 Jan. 29].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Letter dated in House, p. 13.
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.
The pamphlet referenced may be the "Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glencoe, Contained in a Report of the Commission Given by His Majesty..." (1818) or "The Massacre of Glencoe. In a letter from a Gentleman in Edinburgh to his friend in London..." (1819).--Cf. House, p. 13, n. 1.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. 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.
The pamphlet referenced may be the "Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glencoe, Contained in a Report of the Commission Given by His Majesty..." (1818) or "The Massacre of Glencoe. In a letter from a Gentleman in Edinburgh to his friend in London..." (1819).--Cf. House, p. 13, n. 1.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Summary
Enclosing (not present) a pamphlet about Glencoe, noting that Dickens has not yet read it. Also enclosing (not present) the rough draft of the first number of Dickens' new work [Master Humphrey's Clock], asking for Macready's opinion on the first article therein.
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