BIB_ID
420129
Accession number
MA 1352.357
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1854 January 23.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written from "Tavistock House."
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.
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
Enclosing a letter of thanks from Antonina Matthews (this item is no longer with the letter); referring to changes she is making in her household staff; saying that W. Henry Wills gives an excellent account of Charley's work assisting with correspondence at the Household Words office; saying that he plans to send Charley back to Leipzig for no more than six months; describing his plans for a new novel to be published serially in Household Words (identified by the editors of Dickens' correspondence as Hard Times); adding "The first written page now stares at me from under this sheet of note paper. The main idea of it, is one on which you and I and Mrs Brown have often spoken ; and I know it will interest you as a purpose;" saying that he has a presentation copy of Bleak House ready to send to her as well.
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