BIB_ID
290719
Accession number
MA 112.20
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
Telling her he has written to Mr. Bowring; asking if she is beginning to get better; saying that his visit has been "made unusually interesting" because he is staying with [William Charles] Macready and his "charming" wife; reporting on the success of his readings.
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