BIB_ID
420123
Accession number
MA 1352.46
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1845 September 17.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Budleigh Salterton / Devonshire."
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 September 1845."
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 September 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
Concerning a petition from Mr. [Frederic] Tolfrey for financial assistance; cautioning her against providing him any help; relating, at length, the details of a family who came to his attention through George Cruikshank and whose financial troubles are worthy of her assistance; reporting on the Eltons and saying "We have never had the least trouble with them; and they are all as well, as happy, and as full of promise, thank God for it! - as we could possibly desire."
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