BIB_ID
291427
Accession number
MA 113.123
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 Mar. 6.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Austin's proposition was to make a study out of the china cupboard.--Cf. Storey, p. 296, n. 3.
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. Signed "CD."
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. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Responding to Austin's unnamed proposition, begging to know what it is. Mentioning that Dickens has gone to Brighton for the weekend, and asking Austin to dine on Monday.
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