BIB_ID
290924
Accession number
MA 107.90
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1845 Sept. 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 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.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Summary
Discussing the capacity of Macready's box at the theater. Noting that Dickens is "half dead with Managerial work" [for Every Man in His Humour], complaining about the "utterly careless and unbuisness-like set of dogs ... as [his] fellow actors," noting that he does not except Forster in this description.
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