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Letter from Charles Dickens, Aberdeen, to Georgina Hogarth, 1866 May 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
291195
Accession number
MA 2249.3
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1866 May 16.
Credit line
Gift of George H. Fitch, 1963.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Envelope with postage stamp and postmark to "Miss Hogarth / 6 Southwick Place / Hyde Park / London / W."
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Part of a collection of 2 engravings of Dickens and 5 letters from Dickens to Georgina Hogarth and her mother, Georgina Thomson Hogarth. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2249.1-7).
Provenance
Gift of George H. Fitch, 1963.
Summary
Telling her that they have arrived in Aberdeen; asking her to have the carriage meet him at King's Cross on Sunday morning; saying he does not know how his reading will be received in Aberdeen.