BIB_ID
291140
Accession number
MA 113.24
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1848 Oct. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 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 on mourning stationery. Signed "CD."
Written from Devonshire Terrace on mourning stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Requesting a copy of Austin's report [Metropolitan Sanitary Commission. Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Whether any and what Special Means may be Requisite for the Improvement of the Health of the Metropolis] to "send to someone in the Country."
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