BIB_ID
291119
Accession number
MA 112.61
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his sister Letitia; the letters are described separately (MA 112.1-77).
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1894.
Summary
Discussing the Staplehurst rail accident; noting that he was shaken "by the work afterwards in taking out the dying and the dead"; explaining that his was the only carriage that did not "go over into the stream"; very briefly describing the reaction of the two ladies in his carriage (Ellen Ternan and her mother).
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