BIB_ID
291201
Accession number
MA 2249.4
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1861 November 20 :
Credit line
Gift of George H. Fitch, 1963.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Envelope with postage stamp, postmarks and seal to "Miss Hogarth / Gad's Hill Place / Higham / by Rochester."
Written on mourning stationery from "Queen's Head Hotel, Newcastle / Wednesday Night Twentieth Nov'r 1861."
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).
Envelope with postage stamp, postmarks and seal to "Miss Hogarth / Gad's Hill Place / Higham / by Rochester."
Written on mourning stationery from "Queen's Head Hotel, Newcastle / Wednesday Night Twentieth Nov'r 1861."
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 he has arrived in Newcastle; noting that not many seats have sold for his reading; observing that "Headland has made an awful mistake ... in putting up Little Dombey ... instead of Copperfield" for the reading; mentioning that "disagreeable Jenny [Lind] seems to have made an extraordinary success" in Newcastle last week.
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