BIB_ID
414588
Accession number
MA 14030
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1849.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.1 x 9.3 cm
Notes
Fragment consisting of the upper right hand corner of a sheet, and containing 10 lines of sentence fragments, beginning: fretting and fuming all day for his return; and ending: separately, if I had had anything.
Identity of recipient from accompanying documentation; year of writing suggested by the references to Dickens legal entanglements with Thomas Powell, who is mentioned in the body of the letter fragment.
Identity of recipient from accompanying documentation; year of writing suggested by the references to Dickens legal entanglements with Thomas Powell, who is mentioned in the body of the letter fragment.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
incomplete lines of text evidently referring to Dickens's involvement with his former friend, the forger and embezzler Thomas Powell, with fragmented references to Powell's stay in a mad house, depositions, and "some of the defrauded".
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