BIB_ID
348076
Accession number
MA 8530
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Genoa, Italy, 1845 May 15.
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2013.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 13.9 x 8.8 cm
Notes
Written from "Peschiere," a reference to the Palazzo Peschiere in Genoa.
Addressed to "Madame De la Rue," wife of Swiss banker Emile de la Rue. In a number of sessions in the spring of 1845, Dickens practiced mesmerism on Augusta de la Rue, attempting to treat a disorder from which she suffered.
Addressed to "Madame De la Rue," wife of Swiss banker Emile de la Rue. In a number of sessions in the spring of 1845, Dickens practiced mesmerism on Augusta de la Rue, attempting to treat a disorder from which she suffered.
Provenance
Purchased at Stargardt Auction, April 16-17, 2013, through Lion Heart Autographs, Inc.
Summary
Writing that he hopes she does not think he is sending an excuse instead of himself; explaining "I am in a hideously indigestive state -- cross -- uncomfortable -- bilious -- blue -- and limp. A mutton chop and a long walk and nobody to be contradictory to, are the remedies I have prescribed myself. That stuff in the green reeds is slow murder."
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