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Autograph letter signed : Higham, to William Macready, 1861 July 31.

BIB_ID
290709
Accession number
MA 107.50
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1861 July 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 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 107 for more information.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Summary
Apologizing for not having sent Macready a copy of Great Expectations, noting that "a compound of bungling on the part of the publisher and of the printer, has caused it to be out of print for a fortnight," and stating that he will bring a copy when he visits Cheltenham.