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Autograph letter signed : Higham, to Henry Austin, 1857 June 6.

BIB_ID
291431
Accession number
MA 113.126
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 June 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (2 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 Gad's Hill. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Despairing over the dryness of the well at Gad's Hill Place, and asking for advice.