BIB_ID
420105
Accession number
MA 1352.350
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Turin, Italy, 1853 December 4.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 21.1 x 13.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Written from "Hotel de l'Europe, Turin."
Envelope with seal and postmarks: "Miss Burdett Coutts / Hotel Bristol / Paris."
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.
Envelope with seal and postmarks: "Miss Burdett Coutts / Hotel Bristol / Paris."
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 and his traveling companions, Wilkie Collins and Augustus Egg, have engaged a courier to take them over the Mont Cenis pass to Lyon and proposing that they dine with her in Paris next Tuesday; asking if she could reserve an apartment at a hotel for them (and for his son Charley), to be ready on their arrival; saying that he remembers "some very good bachelor-apartments" at the Hotel Bristol that would work well for their purposes; sending his regards to the Browns; making further arrangements regarding their trip.
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