BIB_ID
420125
Accession number
MA 1352.48
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1845 October 6.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts."
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 / Monday Night Sixth October / 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 / Monday Night Sixth October / 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 letter he sent to her which she may have overlooked; saying he is sure that he wrote to her at Stratton Street (see MA 1352.47) "...acknowledging the safe receipt of the money, and telling you that I would write again and gratify you (I hoped ) by saying how we had disposed of it - as soon as I had quite completed the business. I said in the same letter that the poor young lady was very greatly better - composed, and mentally resigned : placing her trust in a better World, and relying on a meeting there, in God's good time, with her lover;" reiterating his certainty that he sent the letter to her in town; adding "I will not fail to redeem that pledge of telling you the end of your benevolence, so far as it can now be ascertained, as soon as I know it myself."
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