BIB_ID
290921
Accession number
MA 107.88
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1845 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 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.
With seal and postmarks and addressed in Catherine Dickens' hand to "Inghilterra. / Mrs. Macready. / 5 Clarence Terrace / Regents Park / London."
Written from Rome. Signed "Charles Dickens."
With seal and postmarks and addressed in Catherine Dickens' hand to "Inghilterra. / Mrs. Macready. / 5 Clarence Terrace / Regents Park / London."
Written from Rome. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Summary
Describing his journey from Paris, mentioning that he was so "horribly ill on board a steamboat that [he] should have made [his] Will if [he] had had anything to leave." Asking after Mrs. Macready's health, and hoping to see the Macready family soon.
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