BIB_ID
419997
Accession number
MA 1352.39
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 October 17.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Putney Heath / Putney."
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 "Devonshire Terrace / Seventeenth October 1843."
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 "Devonshire Terrace / Seventeenth October 1843."
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
Sending her two papers, commenting on teaching Nell and commenting on the Ragged School; saying "Certainly I would teach Nell, a trade. It is a matter of stupendous difficulty, however, to say what trade. I will keep the point in my mind, and after making some enquiries, report to you next week. Undoubtedly if the Ragged School could obtain any assistance from the Government, it would be an immense thing. I am not sanguine in my hopes of any Government in such cases; but Lord Sandon would be an excellent person to interest in Saffron Hill's behalf, and I believe would be easily interested in any question involving so much misery. Y̲o̲u̲r̲ intervention would be most powerful."
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