BIB_ID
290700
Accession number
MA 112.12
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his sister Letitia; the letters are described separately (MA 112.1-77).
Written on mourning stationery.
Written on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1894.
Summary
Recommending that she not take boarders because he doesn't think her "spirits are fit for it"; suggesting that she take lodgings with a spare room so she can store extra furniture; asking if she would like to go to Gad's Hill for a week or so.
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