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Letter from Charles Dickens, Belfast, to Percy Fitzgerald, 1869 January 15 : autograph manuscript, incomplete.

BIB_ID
414580
Accession number
MA 14028.2
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
Belfast, Ireland, 1869 January 15.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from Belfast, Ireland; on letterhead stationery printed, "Gads Hill Place, / Higham by Rochester, Kent"
The first page of what was evidently a two page letter, lacking the second half of the closing sentence and the writer's signature. Cf. House, Storey, and Tillotson, from a complete transcription of the letter in Percy Fitzgerald's Memories of Charles Dickens (London : J.W. Arrowsmith, 1913), page 62.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Remarking on the inexpressive character of the audience for readings (in Dublin) in comparison to those in London.