BIB_ID
291512
Accession number
MA 4979.58
Creator
Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869.
Display Date
[1832 or earlier].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1995.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters between Charles Dickens, Sir James Emerson Tennent and his family, and John Forster. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 4979 for more information.
Signed "Yours to a T., J. Emerson," suggesting that this letter is written before Emerson assumed his wife's surname in 1832.
Signed "Yours to a T., J. Emerson," suggesting that this letter is written before Emerson assumed his wife's surname in 1832.
Summary
Explaining that he missed their breakfast engagement because he was waiting for his books from Ireland to be delivered; asking him to get a frank from a Mr. Johnson.
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