BIB_ID
291356
Accession number
MA 113.92
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1852 July 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 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 from Tavistock House. Signed "CD."
Written from Tavistock House. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Approving of Austin's proposal [for an article in Household Words], and asking whether he will write it himself. Noting that he is traveling to Dover the following day for three months, but will be at the office every Wednesday.
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