BIB_ID
291190
Accession number
MA 113.46
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Jan. [23].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 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 Office of Household Words stationery. Misdated "Thursday Evening / 22nd January 1851;" in 1851 Thursday was on the 23rd. Signed "CD."
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Misdated "Thursday Evening / 22nd January 1851;" in 1851 Thursday was on the 23rd. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Asking Austin to visit "a place at Highgate" that Dickens is interested in possessing, and to give his "opinion of it in a sanitary and soft watery pint [sic] of view." With a postscript asking for anything Austin has written on "the more obvious absurdities & evils of the Window Tax."
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