BIB_ID
291362
Accession number
MA 113.95
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1852 Sept. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (3 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.
With notes in a different hand on the verso of p.
Written from Dover. Signed "CD."
With notes in a different hand on the verso of p.
Written from Dover. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing Miss Coutts's anxiety to "take preventive measure against the cholera down in her part of Westminster" and noting that she would "take it as a great favor" if Austin and Dr. Smith could meet the clergyman of her church and advise her on the project. Mentioning that he can never "remember what the name of the Poor Dwelling Improvement Society whereof Gatliffe is the Secretary" [The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes], though he is a shareholder, and asking Austin if he knows because Dickens thinks he "may get them a good shareholder in the person of Miss Coutts."
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