BIB_ID
291558
Accession number
MA 4979.73
Creator
Tennent, Letitia Emerson, d. 1883.
Display Date
[1869] Mar. 4.
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Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1995.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 14 cm
Notes
Dickens refers to the proposed March 25th dinner in a letter to Mrs. Forster (dated Mar. 8, 1869) about Sir James Emerson Tennent's death. See Madeline House, Graham Storey, and Kathleen Tillotson, eds., The Letters of Charles Dickens (Oxford: Clarendon, 2002), v. 12, p. 308. Tennent died on Mar. 6, 1869.
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.
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.
Summary
Inviting him to dinner with Charles Dickens and the American Minister on March 25; noting that they also hope to see [Mamie] Dickens and [Georgina] Hogarth.
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