BIB_ID
290580
Accession number
MA 107.12
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 June 11.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
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 "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Summary
Agreeing to a proposed engagement, and suggesting that they discuss their intended trip into Dorsetshire. Referencing Macready's disastrous American tour when noting that Scribe and Halévy will dine with Dickens the following Tuesday and asking whether Macready feels enough restored to his "public position and character, as to be able to pay them the compliment of meeting them." Mentioning his work on David Copperfield and at Household Words
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