BIB_ID
420141
Accession number
MA 1352.56
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1846 April 28.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly."
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 / Tuesday Twenty Eighth April / 1846."
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 / Tuesday Twenty Eighth April / 1846."
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
Arranging to call on her the following day; adding "The wisdom of what you say, in reference to the ordinary run of English Clergymen abroad, I strongly feel. But I think in a place like Lausanne, I might get Charley a very good year's teaching, and yet keep him under my own eye all the time. He is still such a little fellow that I should be pained to leave him at home."
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