BIB_ID
291222
Accession number
MA 113.58
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Aug. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dickens thought of Stroud as a possible scene for Bleak House.--Cf. Storey, p. 460, n. 2.
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.
See also MA 113.59-60.
Written from Broadstairs, Kent, on mourning paper. Signed "CD."
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.
See also MA 113.59-60.
Written from Broadstairs, Kent, on mourning paper. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Proposing an excursion to the valley of Stroud in Gloucestershire, "where there is a natural picture [Dickens] wish[es] to look into."
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