BIB_ID
290862
Accession number
MA 107.67
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1865 June 12.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
All but date, salutation and closure in the hand of Georgina Hogarth.
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.
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
Thanking Macready for his "kind words of remembrance." Noting that he is too shaken to write, and that most of this letter is not in his hand. Briefly describing the Staplehurst railway crash of 9 June 1865.
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