BIB_ID
290860
Accession number
MA 107.66
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1865 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 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 All the Year Round stationery. Signed "CD." Docketed.
Written on All the Year Round stationery. Signed "CD." Docketed.
Summary
Mentioning that he is "laid up here with a frost-bitten foot." Replying to Professor Agassiz that, "daily seeing improper uses made of confidential letters, in the addressing of them to a public audience that has no business with them," Dickens recently made, "not long ago, a great fire" at Gad's Hill and "burnt every letter [Dickens] possessed." Noting that "Felton's letters went up into the air with the rest, or [Agassiz] should have had them most willingly." Mentioning a visit to Drury Lane.
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