BIB_ID
405644
Accession number
MA 13736.12
Creator
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872.
Display Date
1870 June 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 14.2 x 8.8 cm
Notes
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Letterhead stationery printed, "13 Eaton Place West. / S.W."
One of a group of 16 letters from Chorley to his future biographer, H.G. Hewlett (see MA 13736.1-16).
Letter possibly written by Chorley in reference to the death of his friend, Charles Dickens, who died on June 9, 1870, and whose obituary Chorley composed for the Athenaeum.
Letterhead stationery printed, "13 Eaton Place West. / S.W."
One of a group of 16 letters from Chorley to his future biographer, H.G. Hewlett (see MA 13736.1-16).
Letter possibly written by Chorley in reference to the death of his friend, Charles Dickens, who died on June 9, 1870, and whose obituary Chorley composed for the Athenaeum.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Explaining that he will not be reading the poem recently sent to him by Hewlett for awhile; with references to the pain of a recent calamity, the great strain he has suffered from his "miserable performance in the Athenaeum", and the impossibility of "turning the mind away from such a terrible sorrow".
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