BIB_ID
291199
Accession number
MA 113.51
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 May 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 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 from Broadstairs on mourning stationery. Signed "CD."
Written from Broadstairs on mourning stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Stating that he has written out his speech [from the first anniversary dinner of the Metropolitan Sanitary Association] "word for word, exactly as it was delivered" and that though he has "not put in any hears or cheers," Austin can, if he likes, "shake them out."
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