BIB_ID
291192
Accession number
MA 113.47
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Jan. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.8 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. Signed "CD."
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing the particulars of their proposed visit to the house in Highgate (see MA 113.46), expressing "horror" at learning that it has tenants, and relating his meeting of the lady of the house who "rushed out of the dining room, card in hand, and enquired if the humble individual who now has the honor to address [Austin], if he were the real original inimitable to whom she was indebted for so many hours of --- &c &c."
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