BIB_ID
291186
Accession number
MA 113.42
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (3 1/2 p.) ; 17.9 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. Signature excised: top half of the second sheet (comprising p. 3-4) is cut away; closing and signature were formerly on p. 4.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signature excised: top half of the second sheet (comprising p. 3-4) is cut away; closing and signature were formerly on p. 4.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Complaining that "the Sanitary fellows are such terrible people" to change the date of a meting on short notice, and lamenting that he will not be able to attend. Mentioning that his work "is very hard just now" and that "it is not the time it would take [for the meeting] that is of importance, but the putting of [him]self out," but that he remains "sincerely anxious to serve the cause."
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