Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter : London, to Henry Austin, 1853 Feb. 26.

BIB_ID
291384
Accession number
MA 113.108
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1853 Feb. 26.
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 Tavistock House. Letter is incomplete; second page is missing.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Enclosing (not present) a cheque for £40 "on account of the St. Stephen's matter" [of surveying 150 houses in St. Stephen's Parish, Westminster]. Mentioning that he has seen MacGregor "on the subject of that piece of ground, the Mud Field" [for Miss Coutts's further scheme of building a Model House].