BIB_ID
291202
Accession number
MA 113.52
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 May 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.6 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.
The second of two letters from Dickens to Austin dated 21 May 1851. See also MA 113.53, which was written earlier in the day.
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
The second of two letters from Dickens to Austin dated 21 May 1851. See also MA 113.53, which was written earlier in the day.
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Enclosing (not present) "the Speech with the little Insertion made" (see MA 113.51 and .53), and thanking him for congratulations on the play [Not So Bad As We Seem], noting that it is "undoubtedly a great success."
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