BIB_ID
291234
Accession number
MA 113.62
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Sept. 8.
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, Kent, on mourning paper. Signed "CD."
Written from Broadstairs, Kent, on mourning paper. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter, which has "considerably allayed the anguish of [Dickens'] soul" (see MA 113.61), and discussing plans to meet with Austin at Tavistock House with the builders and workmen. Mentioning that "a steamer [the Apollo] was lost on the Goodwin" the previous day, and that men are "bringing in no end of dead cattle and sheep."
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