BIB_ID
291229
Accession number
MA 113.61
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Sept. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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.
Written from Broadstairs, on mourning paper. Signed "CD."
Written from Broadstairs, on mourning paper. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing needed repairs and renovations to Tavistock House, and complaining that work has not started and he has not heard from Austin. Begging Austin to write. With a postscript reading "NO WORKMEN ON THE PREMISES! Ha! Ha! ha! (I am laughing demoniacally)."
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