BIB_ID
290899
Accession number
MA 107.75
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1867 Oct. 2.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 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.
The 1867 Christmas Number for All the Year Round was "No Thoroughfare," co-written with Wilkie Collins.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
The 1867 Christmas Number for All the Year Round was "No Thoroughfare," co-written with Wilkie Collins.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens." Docketed.
Summary
Discussing his intention to visit America, and asking Macready to dine. Thanking him for his cheerful letters, sending love to Macready's family, and mentioning a visit to the Forsters. Noting that he is "in the agonies of writing the Christmas Number with a divided mind," and feels as though he "should never get out of it."
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