BIB_ID
291409
Accession number
MA 113.116
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 July 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 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.
This letter is the first surviving indication of Dickens' renewed interest in Gad's Hill.--Cf. Storey, p. 678, n. 1.
Written from Folkstone. Signed "CD."
This letter is the first surviving indication of Dickens' renewed interest in Gad's Hill.--Cf. Storey, p. 678, n. 1.
Written from Folkstone. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Thanking Austin for his kind note, mentioning that as he is not in town to "to make an agreeable little trip of it," he accepts Austin's "considerate offer" [to assess the condition and value of Gad's Hill Place].
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