BIB_ID
291168
Accession number
MA 113.36
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Feb. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
N.B. It is not known whether Robert Austin became the tutor to Lever's children.--Cf. Storey, p. 31, n. 6.
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."
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."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Enclosing (not present) part of a letter from "Lever the Novelist" [Charles James Lever] to "Chapman the bookseller" [Edward Chapman] concerning Austin's brother Robert, who "has been a tutor" but of whom Dickens has "had no knowledge ... since his boyhood." Asking Austin how he should reply.
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