BIB_ID
290914
Accession number
MA 107.84
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1870 Mar. 2.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Written on Athenaeum stationery. Signed "Charles Dickens."
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.
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.
Summary
Wishing Macready a happy birthday. Noting that he is "getting on very well" with his new book [Edwin Drood], and mentioning the "immense audiences at St. James's Hall" for his readings. Mentioning the health of his family, and referencing a speech at Birmingham. With a postscript noting that Mrs. Stanfield looks "curiously old."
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