BIB_ID
291078
Accession number
MA 112.49
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his sister Letitia; the letters are described separately (MA 112.1-77).
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1894.
Summary
Saying she should destroy his cheque by burning it; telling her that "the disturbed mind and affections, like the tossed sea, seldom calm without an intervening time of confusion and trouble"; encouraging her to make a determined effort to "settle the thoughts, to parcel out the day, to find occupation regularly or to make it"; mentioning Georgina Hogarth, Mary Dickens, Kate Dickens, and William Charles Macready.
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