BIB_ID
290706
Accession number
MA 112.15
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 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
Discussing where she should live; saying that he had 1400 people at his Glasgow reading, and the crowd was "so immense in Edinburgh that [he is] obliged to go all the way back there next Saturday"; mentioning that the memorial business to Lord Palmerston is done.
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