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Letter from Charles Dickens, London, to Georgina Hogarth, 1864 February 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
291210
Accession number
MA 2249.7
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1864 February 8.
Credit line
Gift of George H. Fitch, 1963.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 12.2 x 9.9 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written on the stationery of "Office of All the Year Round, / A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens / No. 26, Wellington Street, Strand, London. W.C" on "Monday Eighth February 1864."
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 Hopper Fitch (1909-2004), 1963.
Summary
Telling her that he has taken the house at 57 Gloucester Place; asking her to contact George Wilson, an estate agent, and a servant named Matilda about going over the inventory; adding "I have been interrupted again today, and am almost beside myself. Coals and baths shall be duly looked to."