BIB_ID
390910
Accession number
MA 8706
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Genoa, Italy, 1845 April 10.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2015.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Written from "Palazzo Peschiere, Genoa."
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "Inghilterra / Mrs. Overs / 16 Carthusian Street / Charter-House Square / London."
Dickens describes the Overs family and their situation in a letter to Angela Burdett-Coutts dated December 8, 1844. This letter is in the Morgan's collection and has been cataloged as MA 1352.42. John A. Overs was a cabinet-maker and author; Dickens wrote the preface to his book Evenings of a working man.
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "Inghilterra / Mrs. Overs / 16 Carthusian Street / Charter-House Square / London."
Dickens describes the Overs family and their situation in a letter to Angela Burdett-Coutts dated December 8, 1844. This letter is in the Morgan's collection and has been cataloged as MA 1352.42. John A. Overs was a cabinet-maker and author; Dickens wrote the preface to his book Evenings of a working man.
Provenance
From the collection of Hugh Selbourne, M.D.; purchased at Bonhams (London) on March 25, 2015.
Summary
Concerning assistance following the death of her husband, John A. Overs, in September 1844; writing "I really do not know what Mr. [John] Forster has in hand for you. I think he wrote me word, but I do not remember - and I deem it best not to keep you in a state of expectation, while I search out that fragment from an extensive correspondence. But if you will send him this letter, he will take it as an authority to pay to you what he may have;" saying that he hopes she succeeds in her undertaking; adding that her account of Miss Burdett-Coutts's kindness is very gratifying to him: "But it does not surprise me, for she is always kind and good to those who need her help."
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