Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Charles Dickens, Newcastle, to Georgina Hogarth, 1861 November 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

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).
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.