BIB_ID
291364
Accession number
MA 113.97
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1852 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 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 Dover. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Written from Dover. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing the final renovations to Tavistock House, asking Austin whether he thinks Cubitt's men should paint part of the side of the "little house by the dining room windows," as Dickens fears "it will look shabby and patchworky as the winter comes on."
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