BIB_ID
307295
Accession number
MA 2626.4
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1845 June 8.
Credit line
Purchased, 1968.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21.1 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
At the foot of the page de la Rue has written: "I told him that it corresponded with the first day that she was mesmerized last year by him, of which circumstance he had not thought at first. On the 23.x. [meaning xii] the effect took place upon her from 11 to 1/2 past by having most uncomfortable day. I don't know whether D. mesmerized her on that day in London."
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.
At the foot of the page de la Rue has written: "I told him that it corresponded with the first day that she was mesmerized last year by him, of which circumstance he had not thought at first. On the 23.x. [meaning xii] the effect took place upon her from 11 to 1/2 past by having most uncomfortable day. I don't know whether D. mesmerized her on that day in London."
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
Reporting "She [i.e. Augusta de la Rue] called out to me suddenly, today, that I, being in England, must be mindful to magnetize her on the 23rd. of December," and saying that he writes this down in order that there may be no possibility of her overhearing the least allusion to the subject."
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