BIB_ID
291538
Accession number
MA 113.135
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1858 June 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 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 Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "CD."
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Emphatically complaining that since his letter of earlier the same day (not extant), "the Pump has broken down again," and that "the Rochester man" [doing renovations and repairs on Gad's Hill] says "he'd rather have nothink to do with that 'ere infernal ma-sheen." Begging Austin "Pray help me! Pray, pray save me from bankruptcy and Despair!!"
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