BIB_ID
291085
Accession number
MA 112.50
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his sister Letitia; the letters are described separately (MA 112.1-77).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1894.
Summary
Explaining that he hasn't written sooner because he has so much proofreading to do; noting that he is debating whether to "go away for a whole year and read in Australia"; describing Georgina Hogarth and Mary Dickens' difficult passage to France; mentioning the American Civil War.
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