BIB_ID
290743
Accession number
MA 112.33
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 12.3 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 stationery with "Office of All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens" printed at the top.
Written on stationery with "Office of All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens" printed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1894.
Summary
Saying that he will help her buy "£500 worth of some good stock or bonds that will pay 4 percent"; noting that the "readings are becoming very trying"; offering to send her tickets for a reading of David Copperfield on June 6.
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