BIB_ID
291296
Accession number
MA 113.76
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1851 Oct. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.7 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 on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
Written on Office of Household Words stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing the renovations of Tavistock House that have continued since the Dickens family moved into it. Mentioning that "faint streaks of civilization drawn in the Water Closet -- the Bath Room is gradually resolving itself from an abstract idea into a fact -- youthful -- extremely youthful -- but a fact."
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