BIB_ID
290758
Accession number
MA 107.64
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1864 Feb. 10.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 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 mourning stationery. Signed "CD." Docketed.
Written on Gad's Hill Place mourning stationery. Signed "CD." Docketed.
Summary
Apologizing for his poor correspondence, noting that his new book [Our Mutual Friend] and "various distractions" have made him the "worst of correspondents." Discussing Walter Dickens' death, noting that the "poor boy died in a very few moments [from an aneurysm of the aorta] and with his mind full of coming home." Expressing concern over Macready's ill health, and mentioning Thackeray, noting that Dickens is "touched by [Macready] having so felt the little paper."
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