BIB_ID
291084
Accession number
MA 113.4
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Friday Morning [1833-1834 Winter].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Henry Austin Esqre. Junr. / Bloomsbury Square."
Letter is dated in House, p. 34.
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his brother-in-law Henry Austin. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 113 for more information.
Written from Bentinck St. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Letter is dated in House, p. 34.
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his brother-in-law Henry Austin. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 113 for more information.
Written from Bentinck St. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Apologizing for failing to write, noting that he can make no excuse and "therefore for once will tell the truth:" that his sister Letitia was taken ill and Dickens "was running about" until late and "entirely forgot [his] promise to write."
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