BIB_ID
291213
Accession number
MA 113.55
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 July 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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 "cause" is related to the Board of Health's intended closure of metropolitan graveyards.
Written from Broadstairs, Kent on mourning stationery. Signed "CD."
The "cause" is related to the Board of Health's intended closure of metropolitan graveyards.
Written from Broadstairs, Kent on mourning stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Declining to assist Austin, mentioning that it is "quite out of [his] power to do the cause any good service within the short time." Stating that he cannot add any material to the forthcoming issue of Household Words; noting that "to write to the Times on such a subject, would involve an amount of correspondence that [he] really could not ... encounter," reminding him of the "enormous mass of business" brought upon Dickens when he wrote a letter on the execution of the Mannings; and mentioning that he does not like to publish articles in Household Words that are out of its niche "unless for some very extraordinary reason." Mentioning that he has agreed to pay £1,500 for Tavistock House, including the fixtures.
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