BIB_ID
291148
Accession number
MA 113.29
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1849 July 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 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 "CD."
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Proposing that Austin call that evening at about 6, when Dickens "will have gone through all [Austin's] papers" [concerning schemes for London sewage disposal], and will be ready with "the best advice it is in [his] power to offer."
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