BIB_ID
419932
Accession number
MA 1352.331
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1853 April 27.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written from "Tavistock House."
Envelope addressed to "Miss Burdett Coutts" and with the additional note "about Dunn / 1853."
Dickens enclosed a letter regarding Dunn with this letter. That letter, from Charles Humphreys to John Parkinson, has been preserved and is cataloged as MA 1352.646.
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."
Envelope addressed to "Miss Burdett Coutts" and with the additional note "about Dunn / 1853."
Dickens enclosed a letter regarding Dunn with this letter. That letter, from Charles Humphreys to John Parkinson, has been preserved and is cataloged as MA 1352.646.
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
Saying that he is glad to hear that Richard Dunn has been arrested and making reference to the legal proceedings; mentioning D. M. Moir's poem "Casa Wappy;" asking her to tell Mr. Brown that he will call for him on Saturday; concluding "I shall sustain myself through the Academy Dinner afterwards, by the comfortable hope that this fellow Dunn will never get out again."
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