BIB_ID
291126
Accession number
MA 112.63
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 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 from the Athenaeum with the club's logo embossed at the top of the page.
Written on stationery from the Athenaeum with the club's logo embossed at the top of the page.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1894.
Summary
Saying he doesn't know if he will be able to see her before his reading tour; mentioning that Katie Dickens is sick with "nervous fever" and both Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens are with her.
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