BIB_ID
291101
Accession number
MA 113.10
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1841 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
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.
With a penciled list (not in Dickens' hand) of names on the verso of the letter.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
With a penciled list (not in Dickens' hand) of names on the verso of the letter.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Praising Austin's pamphlet [Thoughts on the Abuses of the present System of Competition in Architecture; with an Outline of a Plan for the Remedy], and giving the names of six artists and patrons, including, jokingly, His Majesty The King of the Cannibal Islands. Mentioning that he has sent a copy of the pamphlet to Forster "and begged him to notice it."
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