BIB_ID
291285
Accession number
MA 4979.5
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 Jan. 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1995.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
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.
Written from Tavistock House.
Written from Tavistock House.
Summary
Reporting that "we were dancing the insanest of reels and country dances here ... until 6 o'Clock this morning"; apologizing because he is engaged to dine with Frederick Pollock when he was supposed to dine with Tennent; saying he would far rather have gone to Tennent's house than Pollock's.
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