BIB_ID
291258
Accession number
MA 4979.1
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 May 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1995.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters between Charles Dickens, Sir James Emerson Tennent and his family, and John Forster. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 4979 for more information.
With postmark.
Written from Tavistock House.
With postmark.
Written from Tavistock House.
Summary
Thanking him for his book (Wine, its Use and Taxation); saying that he not sure the reviewer in Household Words will agree with some points in the book; expressing a wish that they were "all going up Mount Vesuvius again, with no war and no disgraces and bedevilments at home."
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