BIB_ID
291203
Accession number
MA 113.53
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 first of two letters from Dickens to Austin dated 21 May 1851. See also MA 113.52, which was written in the evening.
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
The first of two letters from Dickens to Austin dated 21 May 1851. See also MA 113.52, which was written in the evening.
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Asking Austin to send the speech (see MA 113.51-52) back to Dickens for the insertion of "a little point about a chronometer."
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