BIB_ID
291530
Accession number
MA 113.131
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 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."
Written from Gad's Hill. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing renovations to the Pump at Gad's Hill, hoping it "will not be long a-making," and lamenting that "looking at the dry bath, morning after morning -- is gradually changing the undersigned honey-pot, into a Mad Bull."
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