BIB_ID
419921
Accession number
MA 1352.327
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1853 April 9.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written from "Tavistock House."
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Tavistock House."
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
The letters formed part of the Burdett-Coutts sale (Sotheby, 17 May 1922); they were purchased for Oliver W. Barrett in whose collection they remained until it was sold by his son (Parke-Bernet, 31 October 1951).
Summary
Discussing the case of a potential inmate for Urania Cottage, Anne Johnson; saying that he hopes Mr. and Mrs. Brown are better; describing how pleased his son Sydney is with a card he received from Mrs. Brown; writing "Perhaps you will let Mr. Brown know that I don't expect him to be quite well until he has had some more of my iced gin punch;" mentioning that he has heard from his son Charley in Leipzig: "He is now in the Professor's house, and much dismayed, both by the German language, and by my giving him 'two or three months' to learn it in."
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