BIB_ID
291123
Accession number
MA 113.19
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1844 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.7 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 Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Stating that Dickens will call on Austin "sometime between this and June," and that he is "bound for a long journey in July." Noting that his "hearty good wishes are with the Pavement," acknowledging that Austin "must have had many anxieties and disappointments, and procrastinations of hope."
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