BIB_ID
420120
Accession number
MA 1352.44
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1845 August 21.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.0 cm
Notes
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 / Twenty First August 1845."
Written from "Devonshire Terrace / Twenty First August 1845."
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
Apologizing for not arriving in London early enough to see her invitation; relating details of a performance by a Company of Amateurs on the 20th of September for which he will be the Stage Manager; saying "The Comedy is Every Man in his Humour. There will be one man very much out of humour, if you are out of town [...] If I should hear in reply that you will not be in town that night - and further that Mrs. Brown will be away likewise - I shall take to drinking, immediately."
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