BIB_ID
290707
Accession number
MA 112.16
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 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
Saying she should take a furnished lodging by the month until she can find an appropriate house; telling her to stop taking the tonic he recommended while her "head is at all disordered"; reporting that the readings in Scotland have been "most triumphantly successful."
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