BIB_ID
307289
Accession number
MA 2626.1
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1845 January 31.
Credit line
Purchased, 1968.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 13.8 x 9 cm
Notes
Written from the Hotel Meloni.
Part of a collection of six letters from Charles Dickens to the Swiss banker Emile de la Rue. Letters have been described individually in six catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of six letters from Charles Dickens to the Swiss banker Emile de la Rue. Letters have been described individually in six catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Collection of Miss Gladys Storey; purchased in 1968.
Summary
Thanking him for a package; discussing the weather and hotel and generally describing his visit to Rome; extracting portions of a letter from Madame de la Rue in which she describes a terrible dream; discussing his mesmerism of her; noting "she is now in a state most favorable and advantageous to the best influence The Mesmerism could possibly exert upon her;" asking for news of her and saying that he will write to her "to urge her again, to have no secret whatever from me;" fearing that the dream will return and cause her to call a halt to the Mesmerism; apologizing for his poor penmanship and noting "it was a better hand once, before I wrote books."
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