BIB_ID
291415
Accession number
MA 113.118
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1855 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 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 49 Avenue des Champs Elysées. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Written from 49 Avenue des Champs Elysées. Signed "Charles Dickens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Explaining an earlier telegram: discussing the death of Mr. Brown, noting that Miss Coutts and Mrs. Brown have recently arrived in Paris after his death in Montpellier, and that his telegram referred to the ability to bury Mr. Brown at their Church in Westminster. Describing his lodgings in Paris.
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