BIB_ID
291537
Accession number
MA 113.134
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1858 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 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 on Tavistock House stationery. Signed "CD."
Written on Tavistock House stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Agreeing not to go to Gad's Hill until Friday. Mentioning the "prodigious success" of [Dickens' reading Little Dombey at St. Martin's Hall], noting that "it frightened [Dickens' manager] Arthur Smith."
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