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Letter from Charles Dickens, London, to Reverend William Tennant, 1854 December 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
374883
Accession number
MA 8630
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1854 December 23.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2014.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from "Tavistock House."
Tennant was the first Vicar of St. Stephen's, Rochester Row, Westminster, built and endowed by Angela Burdett-Coutts.
Provenance
Previous owners include Alfred C. Berol and Jock Elliott. Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller in 2014.
Summary
Saying that he is going to Bradford in Yorkshire to give a Christmas reading to three thousand people and regretting that this prevents him from attending Miss Coutts's dinner.