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Autograph letter signed : Broadstairs, to Henry Austin, 1842 Sept. 6.

BIB_ID
291110
Accession number
MA 113.14
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1842 Sept. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 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.
Written from Broadstairs. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Asking Austin whether he "happen[s] to have" a letter written by Dickens from Niagara, mentioning that he "should like to refer to it" in his work "Voyages and Travels."