Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to William Charles Macready, [1848 April 29].

BIB_ID
290646
Accession number
MA 106.111
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1848 April 29].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 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 undated; Macready has docketed the letter: "Dickens April 29"; the year of the date is from Storey, Fielding, and Laude.
Summary
Explaining that he "write[s] with the lather on [his] face" and hopes Macready will excuse the "mendicity-society character" of the letter; telling him he will call for him this afternoon.