BIB_ID
291319
Accession number
MA 4979.12
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1866 Aug. 20.
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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 and stamp.
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
With postmark and stamp.
Written on stationery with "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent" printed at the top.
Summary
Quoting a passage from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and discussing men who are "humbug[s], living on the credulity of the people"; mentioning [Richard] Watts; reporting on his son's appointment to "the Bristol, on the West coast of Africa."
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