BIB_ID
291295
Accession number
MA 4979.6
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1837 June 3.
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Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1995.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 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.
With seal.
Written on mourning stationery from 48 Doughty Street.
With seal.
Written on mourning stationery from 48 Doughty Street.
Summary
Worrying that Tennent has "set [Dickens] down as the rudest of [his] chance acquaintances"; explaining that when he was supposed to have dined with Tennent a "very dear young relative" [Mary Hogarth] was taken ill at his house and died there; saying that the heavy blow "completely overwhelmed" him; telling him that he is "sincerely desirous" to improve their acquaintance; giving him his address in London.
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