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Autograph letter signed "The ordinary" : "From the chapel of the jail" [London], to William Charles Macready, [1843 June 19].

BIB_ID
290624
Accession number
MA 106.104
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1843 June 19].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 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 106 for more information.
The letter is dated "Monday morning"; the exact date is from House, Storey, and Tillotson.
Summary
Alluding to a speech Macready is scheduled to give and telling him he is "expected on the Scaffold at half past twelve."