BIB_ID
291157
Accession number
MA 113.33
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1849 Sept. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 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 Winterbourne, Bonchurch. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Written from Winterbourne, Bonchurch. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Approving of Austin's "resigning from that preposterous jumble of imbecility and rottenness" [from the post of Consulting Engineer to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers]. Mentioning that Leech is a great deal better and that the Dickens family intends to travel to Broadstairs the following day.
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