BIB_ID
291183
Accession number
MA 113.40
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Mar. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.4 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 on Household Words Office stationery. Signed "CD."
Written on Household Words Office stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Inviting Austin to dine, and enclosing (not present) the proofs for an article ["The Troubled Water Question"] by Dickens' sub editor Wills, asking Austin "whether there is anything challengeable in it."
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