BIB_ID
291184
Accession number
MA 113.41
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Mar. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 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
Confirming an appointment for the following day and discussing Wills' article ["The Troubled Water Question"], asking for an honest review of it. Noting that Wills "has not the ghost of an idea in the imaginative way," but that Dickens has hired him as sub editor because of his business skills. Mentioning that the following day Dickens will show Austin "a few lines of the Sanitary Preface" he has written for the "cheap Oliver," noting that he has gone to the expense of printing it in order to "sew up" with David Copperfield.
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