BIB_ID
290918
Accession number
MA 107.86
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Friday Evening [1846 Jan. 2].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
House suggests that Dickens handwriting suggests a dating of early 1846.--Cf. House, p. 464.
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 from Devonshire Terrace. 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.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Summary
Thanking her for a note and "kind promise," and regretting that he is unable to leave the house that day, noting that he was "obliged to make an indefinite appointment with a gentleman to call here today (on the most urgent business) at his own leisure between 12 at Noon nd 12 at Night."
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