BIB_ID
291087
Accession number
MA 113.5
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
[1835].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Letter is dated in House, p. 56, to early 1835, before Dickens' engagement to Catherine Hogarth in May.
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 Furnivals Inn. Signed "Charles Dickens."
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 Furnivals Inn. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Suggesting that they share rooms at Furnivals Inn, noting that the arrangement "would afford us an opportunity of enjoying the pleasure of each other's society, and of economizing at the same time," and mentioning that "it is an offer [Dickens] would make to no other creature living."
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