BIB_ID
291205
Accession number
MA 2249.5
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1845 February 4.
Credit line
Gift of George H. Fitch, 1963.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 13.8 x 8.9 cm
Notes
Written from "Rome. Tuesday Fourth February 1845."
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).
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 to come to Naples "by the first boat"; asking her to tell them "on what day and by what boat" she leaves Genoa; noting that the Carnival is remarkable and he has "been regretting" leaving her at home; requesting that she bring toothpowder for Catherine Dickens and new bonnets for "the darlings"; explaining that Catherine would have written but she is at the opera watching Fanny Cerrito dance.
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