BIB_ID
291161
Accession number
MA 113.35
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Jan. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 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
Thanking Austin for the report [possibly the Report of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers on the prevention of cholera by sanitary improvements], and hoping to "do the Sanatory [sic] cause good service in [Dickens'] new periodical." Inviting the Henry and Letitia Austin to dine.
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