BIB_ID
291095
Accession number
MA 113.6
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Saturday Morning [1834 Dec. 20].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Letter is dated in House, p. 51.
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 Furnival's 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 Furnival's Inn. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Noting that if Austin visits Dickens on the following day, they will have to "go out and get our dinner" because Dickens has "had an explosion with nineteen out of the twenty Laundresses in the Inn already." Mentioning that the following day is his mother's birthday, and that he has promised, on behalf of Austin and Beard, to spend the evening with her.
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