BIB_ID
291532
Accession number
MA 113.132
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1857 Sept. 2.
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 Gad's Hill Place. Signed "CD."
Written from Gad's Hill Place. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Discussing renovations to Gad's Hill, mentioning the new Water Closet. Mentioning that Dickens and Collins are traveling together "for ten days or a fortnight, on a 'Tour in Search of an Article' for Household Words," and that Dickens is "horribly used up after the Jerrold business" [the benefit performances of Collins' The Frozen Deep].
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