BIB_ID
291284
Accession number
MA 113.71
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
For a possibly related list of fictitious titles from the library at Tavistock House see MA 109.30.
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."
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."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Enclosing (not present) a list of 113 facetious titles for the backs of the dummy books to go on Dickens' study door at Tavistock House. Mentioning that if they need more titles, he can supply them, but if they need less, "they had better omit some of the sets -- such as Cats' lives in 9 volumes."
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