BIB_ID
291160
Accession number
MA 113.34
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1849 Oct. [18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.4 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. Dated by Dickens "Thursday Night / Nineteenth October 1849," but Thursday was the 18th in 1849. Signature excised: lower portion of second page cut away.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Dated by Dickens "Thursday Night / Nineteenth October 1849," but Thursday was the 18th in 1849. Signature excised: lower portion of second page cut away.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Referencing Austin's resignation (see MA 113.33), and inviting Henry and Letitia Austin to dine, as Dickens "should like to talk over things Sanitary and insanitary."
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